Web Resources: Business

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Introduction

There are numerous web sites dealing with business related topics on the Internet. The following web sites are meant only as starting points to locate business information on the Web. Search tools may be used to locate additional and/or more specific web sites. For information on searching the Web, see Searching for Web Resources. Whether you use information found on the following web sites or use a web search tool, remember to carefully evaluate the information. For further information on evaluating web sites, see Evaluating Web Resources. If you have any recommendations for quality business websites to add to this list, please email: dils@nova.edu.

Web Resources

Accounting Associations Economics Financials, Stocks, and Company Information General Business International Business Legal Resources Marketing Stock Information Taxation

Accounting

Accounting.net http://www.accountingnet.com/ American Accounting Association http://aaahq.org/index.cfm American Institute of Certified Public Accountants http://www.aicpa.org/about/index.htm Institute of Internal Auditors http://www.theiia.org/

Associations

American Accounting Association http://aaahq.org/index.cfm American Financial Assoication http://www.afausa.net/ American Small Business Association http://www.asbaonline.org/ Florida United Business Association http://www.fuba.org/

Economics

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Businesses http://www.bea.gov/bea/pubs.htm U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury Bulletin http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/index.html EconData.net: a Guide to Regional Data on the Net http://www.econdata.net United States Congress, Economic Indicators http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/browse.html Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisors, Economic Report of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/ U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/ World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/data RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) http://www.repec.org/

Financials, Stocks, and Company Information

Bond Markets Online. http://www.bondmarkets.com/ Bonds Online. http://www.bondsonline.com/ EDGAR http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml Forbes http://forbes.com/ Hoovers Online http://www.hoovers.com/free Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER) http://iber.berkeley.edu International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org Multinational Monitor. http://multinationalmonitor.org/monitor.html National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) http://www.nber.org/ SmartMoney.com http://www.smartmoney.com/ Virtual Finance Library from Ohio State's Dept. of Finance. http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/overview.htm

General

BlackEnterprise.com http://www.blackenterprise.com/ BusinessWeek online http://www.businessweek.com/ Business Wire http://home.businesswire.com/ U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Guide to Industries http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/ US News.com, America's Best Colleges 2003 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php Wall Street Journal Online http://online.wsj.com/public/us

International Business

CIA Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ United Nations/ECE. Trends in Europe and North America http://www.unece.org/stats/trend/trend_h.htm U.S. Census. Foreign Trade Statistics. http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/ U.S. Government Export Portal http://www.export.gov/ U.S. International Trade Administration http://www.ita.doc.gov/ World Development Indicators http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

Legal Resources

American Society of International Law http://www.asil.org/resource/Home.htm BusinessLaw.gov (good for small businesses) http://www.businesslaw.gov/ Heiros Gamos http://hg.org/index.html Legal Engine http://www.legalengine.com/ Library of Congress Guide to Law Online http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/ UN-I-QUE : United Nations Info Quest http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf

Marketing

Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/ United States Bureau of Labor, Consumer Price Index http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.toc.htm

Stock Information

AMEX http://www.amex.com/ NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/ NYSE http://www.nyse.com/ Better Business Bureau Central Web Server for U.S. and Canada http://www.bbb.org/ CBS MarketWatch http://cbs.marketwatch.com/

Taxation

American Bankruptcy Institute http://www.abiworld.org/ Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.gov/ Tax and Accounting Sites Directory http://www.taxsites.com/ TaxLinks http://www.taxlinks.com/ Tax Resources http://www.taxresources.com/ U.S. Tax Code Online http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html