Almanacs

Chapter 16

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts Description of publication
• The World Almanac TOC
• The World Almanac Sample page
• The World Factbook Recommended supplement
• Congressional Quarterly Almanac Description of publication
• Congressional Quarterly Almanac TOC
• Congressional Quarterly Almanac Sample page
• Social Work Almanac Recommended supplement
• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios Description of publication
• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financiar Ratios TOC
• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financiar Ratios Sample page
• Plunkett´s Almanacs Recommended supplement

From this chapter:

Dr. Leo Troy, author of the Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios, is a distinguished professor of economics at Rutgers University and has written the widely praised Almanac for more than 20 years.

To the users of financial and operating information-accountants, bankers, business managers, investment and management consultants, lawyers, credit executives, and trade association executives-the Almanac gives the answers to such practical and searching questions as: Compared to the industry as a whole and also to corporations of similar size, how well is the company I am now studying performing in its ratio of profit to sales? On net worth? What about costs? What percentage of sales goes to pensions and other benefit plans? How do the company's outlays on compensation of officers, rents, interest, repairs, and advertising compare with the competition? What about internal sources of capital? What share of sales is going to amortization, depreciation, or depletion? And what percentage of net income is held as retained earnings?

Almanacs