Book Review - Business Reports for Busy People

About the BookBusiness reports are vital to any organization, no matter its size.  However, business reports don’t write themselves.  The ability to organize and present information in an easy-to-read format allows decision-makers to generate the best possible results, no matter what type of report is required.

Business Reports for Busy People has nearly 30 chapters, each one packed with concrete information, useful techniques, and practical tips, ensuring that no matter what kind of report is needed, there will be information to help. Report types include business plans, budget reports, white papers, feasibility studies, and annual reports, among others.

For each kind of report, Business Reports for Busy People, includes:

• Essential “must-have” contents.
• Suggested formats.
• Requirements, criteria, or background information to include.
• Necessary comparisons or options to discuss.
• How to frame conclusions or recommendations. 
• A complete revision checklist.

Also included: easily customizable Microsoft Word templates and boilerplate text on an interactive CD-ROM.  

A practical resource, Business Reports for Busy People features chapters that can stand alone, and is tabbed on the outside margin for quick reference. 

Business Reports for Busy People will teach readers how to work better and more efficiently, by learning to write effective business reports of all kinds.  Business reports that present well-focused and comprehensive content, in a manner that is easy for the audience to comprehend, are an invaluable tool for any business.

Business Reports for Busy People: Timesaving, Ready-to-Use Reports for Any Occasion (EAN 978-1-60163-042-1, pages: 288, price: $19.99) was published by Career Press. The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, and many other booksellers.

Career Press was founded in 1985 as a niche publisher of career directories that since has grown into one of the best-known independent publishers of its kind.  Career Press, which now boasts an active, strong-selling backlist of nearly 300 titles spanning careers, personal finance, business management, and study skills, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010.

For more information about Business Reports for Busy People and other new releases, visit the Website of the publisher, Career Press, at www.CareerPress.com.

About the Author:

Helping online and brick-and-mortar entrepreneurs communicate effectively has been a focus for Greg Holden since he founded his own business in 1993. His diverse list of clients includes both corporations and not-for-profits, and he has worked for universities for more than 20 years. His 45+ books on such topics as marketing, creative services, and security have sold 300,000+ copies, and his book Starting an Online Business for Dummies is in its sixth edition. His expertise, especially in the area of report writing, has helped companies and other organizations continue to operate successfully long after their start-up. Holden lives in Chicago, IL.

My Take on the Book
This book was an amazing guide for any person in business. The book itself provides a step-by-step guide for people to completely understand how to produce the best business reports that they can. What was nice was that the book also came with a CD full of great templates and information that complimented the text perfectly.

I tried out the forms and explored the CD and found the included information invaluable. I actually brought the book to work and shared it with some colleagues as well and all were in agreement about the overall value of the book!

If you work in the business world and are required to write forms from budgets to evaluations to almost any other forms you can think of, this book is for you. It is an invaluable resource that you will come back to again and again!

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