This is a thorough treatment of system design and programming techniques for actually implementing typical business applications on a PC using BASIC. It is well organized and clearly written with new concepts and terms spelled out for each chapter. Additionally, there are study questions and assigned projects at the end of each chapter with the answers given in an appendix at the end of the book.

Chapters include an introduction to information processing, data specifications for keyboard and disk files, output representation, diagramming program logic, implementing the problem solution, formatting reports, and handling single- and multiple-level control breaks. Two appendices deal with the BASIC instruction sets for the IBM-PC as well as most other forms of BASIC and the BASIC disk I/O instruction set.

This book would be useful as a beginning text for classes in business programming at either a vocational school or the undergraduate level. It would also be useful to the average PC owner, a small businessperson who requires something more than off-the-shelf software.