Finance

CCH's Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios is the first step in helping to determine a company's true measure of performance and value. The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

If Americans buy it, market researchers can probably find out how much they spend on it in "Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What." Based on unpublished data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Household Spending" provides dollar-for-dollar answers to the all-important questions, Who buys? What do they buy? How much do they spend? ¿Household Spending¿ is organized into chapters on apparel, entertainment, financial, food and alcohol, gifts, health care, household operations, shelter and utilities, transportation, personal care, reading, education, and tobacco¿in other words, everything a household might buy, from laundry detergent and milk to big-ticket items like homes and cars. And the answers are given by the demographics that count¿age, income, household type, high-income households, region of resident, race and Hispanic origin, and education.