Understanding business cycles

"The collection of articles ... in this compendium has a dual purpose: to address a nonexpert, business audience and to reach business team leaders responsible for or reporting to the functions of strategic planning, forecasting, market research, procurement, or business development. ... what defines a business cycle, the relationship between categories of economic and financial indicators, and how the analysis of some regularities that exist can provide better insight into how business cycles work." -- page 4.