Business Information on the WWW
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Accounting Resources on the Web - from the Rutgers Account Web.
Accounting Terminology Guide - from the New York State Society of CPAs.
AICPA: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - News, accounting education information, state and career information.
Business Filings Databases - by Kathy Biehl with links to the source of public filings for all U.S. states.
Financial Accounting Standards Board - Find text of recent Exposure Drafts, FASB statements & summaries, and Articles & Reports on current issues.
Ohio Society of CPAs - Includes scholarship information, a career center and a page for college students
SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR) - company financial, most SEC filing back to 1993, description of the SEC forms and a tutorial to get you started.
AAAA - Roster of Members - Locate member firms of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Inc. and their websites by searching geographically or by name. A Career Center is also available with job postings.
Advertising Age Data Center - has Fact Packs, leading advertisers and more.
The Advertising and Consumer Culture from the Department of Advertising at Duke University Libraries and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History includes:
Ad*Access - An image database of 7,000 advertisements from 1911 to 1955.timeline and images of ads from newspapers and magazines between 1911 - 1955; and,
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - a database of 9,000 images.
Research Resources - Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin provides extensive links to quotations, famous slogans, a dictionary, bibliographies, biographies, and Advertising World.
KnowThis.com - a Marketing Virtual Library covering many topics.Market Segmentation - a bibliographic guide from the Library of Congress.
Marketing and Advertising - from the Internet Public Library
Surveys of Consumers - requires a login, but leads to archived reports and data available free from Reuters/University of Michigan.
Baker Library Catalog - Harvard Business School.
Codes of Ethics Online - from the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology that allows access to a collection of 850 codes of ethics online.
Global Edge - a portal created by Michigan State University - Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER). It has country and industry information and reviewed web links.
Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki - by Chad Chad Boeninger, Reference & Instruction Technology Coordinator at Ohio University's Alden Library.
Directories
AnyWho - Yellow pages, white pages, and toll-free numbers.EURO PAGES - 900 000 European and international suppliers, manufacturers and distributors listed in its BtoB directory
Idealist.org - a project of Action without borders with listings for groups, jobs & internships in the nonprofit sector, volunteers and speakers.
ThomasNet - Primarily a directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers that can be searched by the name of the company, the product or the brand.
Europe
Finfacts - the Irish Finance Portal with many useful links.
Germany, Federal Statistical Office - The English language home page of the German Federal Statistical Office.
Statistics Norway - links to government sites for statistics collected by an independent institution under the Ministry of Finance for Norway.
SWEDEN.SE - "The official Gateway to Sweden."
Latin America and South America
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - The Institute of Latin American Studies/ University of Texas at Austin.
North America
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada - Includes information on trade, travel, culture and policy.
Industry Canada - a gateway to Canadian markets, trade, companies,and statistics.
Statistics Canada - a portal to social and economics statistics.
World
Country Briefings - from Economist.com
Deloitte International Tax and Business Guides - Includes downloadable guides and snapshots.
FITA's International Market Research Center - Country profiles and thousands of links to world trade sources.
Foreign Government and International Sites - Links to various governmental sites for country information.
Freedom House - a proponent of democratic freedom for over 60 years. This site provides reports Freedom in the World about many countries, and
Nations in Transit about 29 countries and administrative areas from Central
Europe to Eurasia.
Global Edge, Country Insights - from the International Business Center at Michigan State University.
NationMaster.com - created by Luke Metcalfe and and Australian company, Rapid Intelligence. There is a searchable encyclopedia, country information, maps and statistics. This site also has time series statistics and links to most Corrupt Countries, Most Generous, Most Taxed and more.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web - a centralized collection of links compiled by the University of Auckland Library.
Portals to the World - created by subject specialists at the Library of Congress with links to information on topics such as culture, education, government and more.
Transparency International - a nonprofit coalition that monitors corruption in countries around the world.
U.N.'s INFONATION - from the United Nations, a database that allows comparisons of statistics for up to five UN member countries.
The World Bank, Countries & Regions - includes an overview, news, the World Bank strategy and the country's government development report.
Foreign Exchange Rates - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
OANDA: The Currency Site - a one stop source of information for Traders, Travelers and Business.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - frequently updated data series on employment, CPI, and more.
EcEdWeb - links to economic data for teachers and college students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Economic Education.
Economagic - a source for free economic time series useful for economic research.
Economic Data - Fred II - Time series data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Economic Policy Review - archived articles back to 1995 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Economic Research and Data - from the Federal Reserve System - created by the Board of Governors, links to the 12 Federal Reserve Districts, the Beige Book, articles from the Federal Reserve Bulletin and more.
E.H. Net - includes a page for How Much Is That? for historic GDP and inflation rates, an encyclopedia E.H.Net Encyclopedia - Economic History articles which have brief bibliographies, and are signed by university associated authors.
Foreign Trade Statistics - U.S. Census Bureau.
FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for System for Economic Research, a searchable scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents for complete data series
Government Business, Industry & Economics Statistics - from Jane Wu, Government Documents Librarian at Otterbein College.
International Economics Network - by Jamus Jerome Lim with links to economics sites and organized by topic.
RePec: Research Papers In Economics - a directory and database for citations to working papers, articles books and chapters from published and unpublished research.
Resources for Economists on the Internet - by Bill Goffe, Department of Economics, SUNY Oswego.
U.S. Economic Accounts - Bureau of Economic Analysis - contains historical and current National Income and Product Accounts table, state and regional data and International Trade.
Business Plan Basics - from the United States Small Business Association.
Center for Women's Business Research - research documenting the economic and social contributions of women-owned firms.
Entrepreneurship - Resources from the Internet Public Library.
Small Business Association
Small Business Resources - created by Wahib Nasrallah, Business and Economics Librarian at the University of Cincinnati.
CNN fn - the financial network - business news and financial information.
FINWeb - links to working papers, practice tests, data sets, and search engines specifically for economic and financial information.Historical Prices - quotes back as far as 1962 from Yahoo Finance.
Money - Past, Present & Future - by Roy Davies, this site has information on monetary history, financial scandals and frauds, essays and a time line of the history of money.
Superstar Investor - An award winning directory of 11,000 links to investing sites.
Yahoo's List of Stock Exchanges
Beverage Digest Data and Statistics - includes rankings of companies and brands.
Business Statistics Resources - Links from the University of Washington.
Consumer Electronics Association - Portions of their Digital America publication are available for no charge.
Current Industrial Reports - data from the U.S. Census Bureau for manufacturing, mining, construction industries.Economic Census - from the Census Bureau.
Economic Census: Industry Series Schedule - from the U.S. Census Bureau
Gaming Studies Research Center - from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Gary Price's List of Lists - rankings arranged by industries.Industry Information Resources - A free guide to more than 400 industries with links to trade associations.
Life Insurers Fact Book, 2007 - from the American Council of Life Insurers.
NAICS Codes 2007 - can be searched by keyword.National Transportation Library Information Resources and Tools - from the Research and Innovative Technology Administration
NationMaster.com - Under Facts & Statistics, choose Industry and then select from a list of stats available.
Organic Trade Association - Market Trends
A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons - from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Foreign Trade Statistics - from the Bureau of the CensusGlobal Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 from the World Economic Forum
Global Business & Finance Resources - part of the International Economics Network from the University of California at Santa Cruz by Jamus Jerome Lim with helpful annotationsInternational Trade Administration - U. S. Department of Commerce includes statistics, country information and trade agreements
International Trade Center - the joint technical cooperation agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). It offers country-level trade information and detailed International Trade Statistics.
Office of the United States Trade Representative – Hot topics and recent issues.
Columbus Chamber
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
State of Ohio Department of Development - Research and Data.