Cengage Learning

Small Business Sourcebook, 36th Edition

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  • ISBN-10: 141036478X
  • ISBN-13: 9781410364784
  • DDC: 658.02
  • 3594 Pages | eBook
  • Previous Editions: 2018, 2017, 2016
  • Original Copyright 2019 | Published/Released February 2019
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2019

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About

Overview

Small Business Sourcebook covers over 340 specific small business profiles and 99 general small business topics; small business programs and assistance programs in the U.S., its territories, and Canadian provinces; and U.S. federal government agencies and offices specializing in small business issues, programs, and assistance.

Features and Benefits

  • More than 18,600 live and print sources of information for 340 industries of interest to small businesses, ranging from accounting to word-processing services.
  • More than 23,300 entries for 99 general small business topics, including management, marketing, business trend and labor relations.
  • A complete Guide to Publishers, covering more than 1,300 companies, associations, institutions, and individuals that publish periodicals, directories, guidebooks, and other publications.
  • A Glossary featuring common business terms in Volumes 1 through 6.

What's New

  • More than 420 records with a focus on Score offices, along with 700 new records focusing on various aspects of small business have been added to this edition of Small Business Sourcebook.

Alternate Formats

  • Casebound Edition

    ISBN-10: 1410364704 | ISBN-13: 9781410364708

Table of Contents

Volume 1.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
List of Small Business Profiles.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes for Profiled Small Businesses.
Licensing Assistance Programs.
Guide to Publishers.
Glossary.
Small Business Profiles.
Provides start-up information, associations and other organizations, educational programs, directories of educational programs, reference works, sources of supply, statistical sources, trade periodicals, videocassettes/ audiocassettes, trade shows and conventions, consultants, franchises and business opportunities, computerized databases, computer systems/software, libraries, and research centers.
Volume 2.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
List of Small Business Profiles.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes for Profiled Small Businesses.
Small Business Profiles.
Volume 3.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
List of Small Business Profiles.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes for Profiled Small Businesses.
List of General Small Business Topics.
Small Business Profiles.
General Small Business Topics.
Includes associations and other organizations, educational programs, directories of educational programs, reference works, sources of supply, statistical sources, trade periodicals, videocassettes/audiocassettes, trade shows and conventions, consultants, computerized databases, computer systems/ software, libraries, and research centers.
Volume 4.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
List of General Small Business Topics.
General Small Business Topics.
Volume 5.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
List of General Small Business Topics.
General Small Business Topics.
State Listings.
Offers sources of small business assistance by state, territory, and Canadian province, including small business development centers, small business assistance programs, SCORE offices, better business bureaus, chambers of commerce, minority business assistance programs, financing and loan programs, procurement assistance programs, incubators/research and technology parks, educational programs, legislative assistance, small business development consultants, and publications.
Volume 6.
Introduction.
User’s Guide.
Acknowledgments.
State Listings.
Federal Government Assistance.
Lists U.S. federal government agencies and offices, including regional, branch, and district offices, which focus on small business issues, programs, assistance, and policy.
Master Index.