BKFNPRIG.RVW   970308
 
"Financial Professional's Internet Guide", John Graves/Kim Hill Torrence, 1996,
0-57398-044-6, U$39.95
%A   John Graves johng@kentis.kent.oh.us
%A   Kim Hill Torrence khill@mail.concentric.net us002405@interramp.com
%C   155 N. Water St., Suite 205, Kent, OH   44240
%D   1996
%G   0-57398-044-6
%I   Kent Information Services Inc./Peer-to-Peer Communications, Inc.
%O   U$39.95 +1-330-673-1300 fax: +1-330-673-6310 email@kentis.com
%O   http://www.kentis.com 800-420-2677 fax: 408-435-0895 info@peer-to-peer.com
%T   "Financial Professional's Internet Guide"
 
More and more professions and specialty groups are becoming wired, and are
therefore needing guides to the net dedicated to their niche.  Financial
professionals already have "Free Business Stuff on the Internet" (cf.
BKFRBUST.RVW) and maybe "How to Grow Your Business on the Internet" (cf.
BKHGYBOI.RVW) but there is still room for additional works.  Although, maybe,
not this one.
 
Most specialty books do include a general section on using the Internet.  This
work, though, goes rather overboard in that regard.  I was willing to overlook
some of the errors (Novell does not make antiviral software; you can't use
boolean search terms with archie) in a quick guide.  The content seemed a bit
terse, with numerous important omissions, but I figured that this could, again,
be forgiven in an overview.  After all, the important thing is the accounting
information, right?
 
Wrong, apparently.  The generic Internet guide, lame as it is, comprises about
ninety percent of the book.  The section on accounting resources, in fact, is
shorter than the list of ISPs.  The resource listings are fairly extensive but
only marginally annotated, and are mostly Websites of unknown usefulness.
 
Seen as a general Internet guide, this book is unsatisfactory.  As far as a
reference for financial resources, it is limited in usefulness.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKFNPRIG.RVW   970308
 
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