Web Resources: Business

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

• 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
  

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