Library
Web Reference Sites
Business
Accounting:
A Virtual History: Methods of accounting from ancient
times to the present.
Accounting Dictionaries: Links to several online accounting dictionaries.
Accounting.com: Jobs, professional
development resources, and more.
American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants
Financial Accounting Standards Board
IRS Digital
Daily: Publication published online by the IRS. Includes IRS publications
such as tax forms, regulations, and information.
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
Rutgers Accounting
Web: Excellent collection of links to a wide array of useful accounting
resources.
SmartPros Accounting Students: An online resource for accounting students,
which features daily accounting news updates, a guide to tax and accounting
resources on the Web, an online forum, employment information, and "tips,
tricks and solutions for accounting students and working world neophytes."
The U.S. Cost Accounting Standards Board
The
U.S. General Accounting Office
The Annual Reports Service: This free service by Yahoo Finance provides
you with quick access to annual reports and other information on over 3,500 companies.
All Florida Business Directory
AmericanCompanies.com: Guide to America's Fortune 500 companies.
Best Companies to Work For: Compiled by Fortune Magazine.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information: SEC filings of public companies.
The Forbes 500 Top
Private Companies
The Forbes Global 500: Forbes Global magazine presents its annual list of
the world's biggest companies, measured by revenue.
The Fortune 500
Fortune Company
Profiles
The
INC. 500: Top private companies.
Industry Research Desk: Overview of how to research companies and industries.
InvestMove.com: Allows you to enter a ticker symbol into a search form and
get back a customized page covering more than 30 major information categories
about that company.
Research Companies: From Monster.com
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Yahoo! Finance Company and Fund Index: Includes information on over 9,000
public companies, including contact information, business summaries, officer
and employeee information, sector and industry classifications, business and
earnings announcement summaries, and financial statistics and ratios.
About.com Economics: An
Internet guide for economics, with feature articles, Web
site links, and discussion forums.
Alta Plana: International economics gateway.
The Beige Book: Summary Commentary on Current Economic Conditions.
Bureau of Economic Analysis: BEA seeks to strengthen the understanding of
the U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate
and relevant GDP and economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Price Indexes
County Business Patterns: From the U.S. Census, this source provides county
data by industry.
Deardorff's Glossary
of International Economics: The glossary includes definitions, links
to definitions, and wherever appropriate links to other sites and documents
that may provide additional information.
The Dismal Scientist: This site organizes a large collection of economic
information, including U.S. macro-level forecasts and historical data, state
and metro-area information, U.S. and international economic releases, commentary,
and more.
Economic Census
Economics Glossary
Economics Glossary
Search
E.H. Net Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia
of Economic and Business History
FED 101: This is an interactive
Web site by the Federal Reserve Board to help educators, students and the
public understand the role of the Federal Reserve System.
FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
A History of Economic Thought: This Web site serves as a repository of collected
links and information on the history of economic thought, from the ancient times
until the modern day.
How
Much is that Worth Today?: Site compares the purchasing power of money in
the United States (or colonies) from 1665 through 2000.
Index of Economic Freedom: A portrait of economic freedom of 161 countries.
Inflation Calculator: Conversion
factors to convert US dollars from 1982-1984 and 1995-1999 to equivalent
amounts for others years, or vice versa, based on inflation.
North American Industry Classification
Online Glossary of Research Economics: A general glossary of economics terms found in scholarly and research literature.
Producer Price Indexes
U.S. Economy at a Glance: State and
national economic statistics.
BanxQuote: Site provides
mortgages, loans, credit cards and CD rates in all 50 states.
In addition, you can receive daily market quotes and rates
on Banking, Auto, Home and Consumer Finance.
Barkley's Comprehensive Financial Glossary
Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Bonehead
Finance: Finance for everyone.
Financial Engines: Get answers to investment concerns and questions.
Finfacts Worldwide Cost
of Living Survey: Ranks major international cities by cost of living.
Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
International Monetary Fund Publications
Yahoo! Finance Industry Center: This new section of Yahoo Finance organizes
resources, news, calendars, market info, and additional info by industry.
Money 101: Created by the editors at Money
magazine and its Web site, Money 101 consists of electronic lessons that help
you invest, save, borrow and spend
more wisely. The essentials of each lesson can be absorbed in just 10 minutes.
But all lessons feature greater detail — including calculators, quizzes
and a
library of supplemental materials — for those who want to dig deeper.
New
York Times Glossary of Financial and Business Terms
Quicken Finance Glossary
RateNet: This service tracks more than 11,000 banks and loan institutions
across the country and updates them daily.
Tips for Reading an Annual Financial Report
USA Today
Calculators: Lots of handy calculators for figuring how much house you
can afford, mortgage payments, retirement needs, buying vs. leasing a car
cost comparisons, and many more.
Ad*Access: Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements
printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between
1911 and 1955.
Adflip: The world's largest searchable
database of classic print ads. You can search by category, by decade, even
by year
Advertising Age: The Advertising Century: The top ad campaigns, jingles,
slogans and more.
Advertising Dictionaries: Links to several advertising dictionaries and
glossaries.
Advertising World: Resources
for advertising and marketing professionals, students, and teachers.
The American Advertising Museum: Advertising timeline, exhibits, etc.
The American Marketing Association
The Emergence of Advertising
in America: Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating
to the early history of advertising in the United States.
KnowThis.com: Marketing virtual library with an annotated guide to marketing
resources.
The Marketing Resource Center: Includes a marketing articles library, book
commentaries, and an associations database.
Marketing Terms.com: Online marketing dictionary.
Quirk's Marketing Research Review: One-stop source for information on marketing
research.
BigCharts: Charting
service providing free access to charts, reports, indicators
and quotes for stocks, mutual funds and major market indices.
CNN/Money: Stock quotes.
Dow Jones Averages
Investing Online Resource Center: Site is an independent, non-commercial organization dedicated solely to serving
the individual consumer who invests online or is considering doing so.
InvestZone.com: Allows you to enter a ticker symbol into a search form and
get back a customized page covering more than 30 major information categories
about that company.
InvestorWords: Glossary of investing
terms.
EduStock: Edustock
is an educational Web page designed to teach what the stock market is, and
how
it can work for you.
Investopedia.com: Educational guide to investing and personal finance. Includes
tutorials, articles, and a dictionary of terms and industry buzz words
NASDAQ: Official site of the NASDAQ
with quotes, trends and more.
NASDAQ 100 Heatmap: Site provides a visual representation of the Nasdaq-100
stocks; it displays price fluctuations in near real time - green if the price
is up, red if it's down. As you move your cursor over each color-coded ticker
symbol, you can view a daily chart with
vital trading stats.
The New York Stock Exchange
SEC Investor Information: Provides a variety of services to address the
problems and questions you may face as an investor.
StockScreener: From Hoover's, search for stocks based on variables you choose.
Yahoo! Finance Global Ticker Symbol Lookup
Business.com: Site
contains more than 25,000 categories and subcategories and
includes more than 400,000 business-oriented Web sites along
with 64,000 company profiles which include detailed information
about public, private and international companies, including
news, financials and biographies of executives.
Business
Research Guides: Site by Rutgers University offers business research
guides. This resource is divided into eighteen sections, including Business
News Sources, Job Searching, Market Research and Financing Your Business.
Forecast Center: Business and socioeconomic forecasts.
Intellectual Property Network: Patent search database.
IRS: Official Web site: get tax forms, information, and more.
IRS.com: Not affiliated with the IRS, but offers independent tax advice.
The North American Industry Classification: Replacement for the SIC code.
Social Security Benefit Calculators: Provides rough estimates of your retirement
benefit at three different retirement ages.
The Tax History Project: Site provides scholars, policymakers, students,
the media, and citizens with information about the history of American taxation.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Databases
Washingtonpost.com
Business Glossary
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