What is the difference between adjusted gross receipts and adjusted gross income? How about the differences among adopt, approve, enact and pass? And what the heck is the new name for Andersen Consulting? This go-to resource for these questions and more, gives the reader a competitive edge for succeeding in the world of business.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
More a basic dictionary than a guide to style and usage:
I was somewhat surprised that any publisher would consider this text a guide. Basically, it is formatted like a dictionary with various business-related vocabulary listings and their definitions. Usage applies to the spelling and capitalization of the listings. My expectations were that this book was similar to a Chicago Manual of Style within a business writing context that includes recently created words germane to the business world. Unfortunately, it isn't useful in this regard. For example, if you want... more info
Perfectly fine for what it is.:
As its title says, this book is The Wall Street Journal's *style* guide and, to a lesser extent, a usage guide. A style guide is something specific to the book-magazine-newspaper publishing world: a volume that tells the writers and editors for a given publisher how they should handle certain recurring situations. ("Style" in this context refers to the mechanics of prose composition, not to a writer's individuality of expression.) Any style guide's main purposes are to promote consistency and to save the... more info
Useful, But Not a First Choice:
If you want to know the meaning of derivative claims, leveraged buyout, offshore buying units or Brady bonds, this is the book for you.
If you need to know the definition or usage of the words Amish, tort, girl or the location of Exxon, then, by all means buy this book.
But I don't know why anyone would want to spend $30 (the standard price) for this book, put together by the Wall Street Journal's Paul R. Martin, because it is uneven, moving from the obvious (the word girl, for example), offering up... more info
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