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New York Public Library Business Desk Reference

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Being an Accountant/Controller for smaller corporations (75-200 employees) ... I can state that this book would be Out-of-Date as of 05 March 2003 .... since it was published in 1999!! (and who knows when it was actually 'written'??).
Personnel issues & laws are changing too rapidly (so is the business world in general) to buy a book on business that is FOUR YRS. old !

I own a small geoscience company in the petroleum sector; Rocks make sense to us, not files, office procedures or office equipment. There are three of us in the company but nobody wanted to do the filing, bill-paying or book-keeping because none of us had experience with these things. Initially, we created our own system(s)of getting things done by giving it 2 or 3 seconds of thought. It worked fine until something changed, which it always does in this world. To straighten things up, I bought this book. It looked as useful as the much larger Desk Reference, which is a convenient source of information that would take hours or days to locate any other way. The Business Desk Reference has kept us out of trouble with its brevity and accuracy. We discovered that our office was a plain vanilla setup and all we needed were a few 'tried & true' procedures to keep us out areas where we don't know what we're doing and, instead, making money, which we do know how to do.

I have been using this book in the reference section of the library. I am sure that all of my family members will want a copy for work after they browse through my purchase. After thirty years in education, I have found it to be my best source for career change information. The business etiquette, and employment law information has been most helpful. It is a refernce book that one can read for pleasure. It is hard to put down.