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3rd Floor
| 650 | Business and business methods |
| 657 | Accounting |
| 657.2 | Bookkeeping |
| 657.3 | Financial statements |
| 658 | Business and industrial management |
| 658.1 | Organization for control |
| 658.15 | Financial management |
| 658.3 | Personnel management and administration |
| 658.4 | Principles of management, executive management |
| 658.5 | Production management |
| 658.8 | Marketing (distribution of goods) |
| 658.83 | Market research and analysis |
| 658.9 | Management of specific business and industries |
2nd Floor
| 170 | Ethics |
| 174 | Business ethics |
| 300 | Social sciences |
| 301.4 | Organizations |
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Accounting 657
Advertising 659.1
Appraisal 658.312
Auditing 657.64
Bookkeeping 657.2
Business consultants 658.46
Business ethics 174
Communication in management 658.45
Company histories 338.76
Computers in business 658.4032
Construction industry management 658.99
Corporate governance 658.1145
Cost accounting 657.4
Data mining 006.312
Decision making 658.403
Entrepreneurship 338.72
European accounting 657.094
Export marketing 658.84
Facility management 658.2
Family-owned businesses 658.114
Financial statements 657.3
Human resources management 658.3
Industrial location 658.21
Industrial organization 658.1
Information systems 658.4038
International accounting 657.8
International management 658.16
Joint ventures 658.16
Languages for business 651.74
Leadership 658.4
Management 658
Management consultants 658.46
Managerial accounting 658.15
Managerial success 658.409
Managing change 658.406
Marketing 658.8
Marketing research 658.83
Motivation 658.314
Multinationals: management 658.16
New products 658.57
Occupational training 658.386
Operational research 658.54
Organizational behaviour 301.4
Organizational change 658.406
Packaging 658.7884
Personnel management 658.3
Product design 658.57
Production management 658.5
Project management 658.404
Public relations 659.2
Quality management 658.562
Recruitment 658.311
Retail trade 658.87
Services marketing 658.91
Social responsibility of business 658.408
Statistics for business 658.4034
Strategic alliances (business) 658.16
Strategic management 658.4
Strategic planning 658.401
Stress management 658.382
Supervision 658.3124
Team building 658.402
Training of employees 658.386
Worker participation 658.3152
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