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Accounting
Accounting Net - includes information for Accounting
students , a Resource
Library and a Career
Center with internship advice, a database of accounting positions and
career tips.
AICPA Online - Extensive links
to Accounting information for students and educators as well as links to
State organizations.
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.
GuideStar - provides access to 990
IRS forms. Basic service if free, registration is required. More detailed
information is available in 2 subscription levels.
Ohio Society
of CPAs - Includes scholarship information, an online student resume
database and internship tips.
Rutgers Accounting Web - by Dr. Miklos Vasarhelvi and Dr. Alex Kogan of Rutgers university with
links to the major accounting associations and useful resource links for
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.
Top 9 Small Business Accounting Solutions - from 2020 Software.com which provides links to free demos and some caparison charts.
Advertising & Marketing
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.
Ad*Acess - A timeline
and images of ads from newspapers and magazines between 1911 - 1955.
Advertising Age Data Center -
has Fact Packs, leading advertisers and more.
Advertising Law Resource Center - Links to news, FTC Statements and limited free articles.
Advertising
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.
Emergence of Advertising
in America: 1850-1920 - 9,000 images, with database information, relating
to the early history from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library at Duke University.
KnowThis.com - Marketing Virtual
Library.
Marketing and
Advertising - from the Internet Public Library
Marketing U.S. and International - Extensive links to country reports, news, statistics and more from Jason
Martin at Louisiana State University.
Reveries.com - A Marketing Hub with
a searchable database of biographical and other important information.
Surveys of Consumers - University
of Michigan
Business Periodicals on the Web
Columbus Business First
- from bizjournals.com.
Context
- A technology/strategy magazine published by Diamond Cluster International.
Fortune - Allows access
to the current Fortune 500 lists and a searchable archive of Fortune articles.
Latin Trade Online - A monthly
business publication with searchable archives.
Leader to Leader
- The Drucker Foundation's quarterly journal.
SN Supermarket News - Includes the lists for "SN's Top 75" and "SN's Top 25 Worldwide Food Retailers."
Business School Resources
Baker Library Catalog - Harvard
Business School.
Center for
the Study of Ethics in the Professions: Codes of Ethics Online Project
- from Illinois Institute of Technology and a grant from the National Science
Foundation that allows access to a collection of 850 codes of ethics online.
Global Edge Resource Desk
- created by Michigan State University - Center for International Business
Education and Research (MSU-CIBER).
Kresge Library, University
of Michigan Business School - Includes "Find
It Fast!" guides and faculty working
papers.
SMEALSearch - a unique web
search engine for that searches and catalogs business reports an articles,
from the Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Thunderbird Online Resources - IBIC Global Gateway.
Companies
Directories
AnyWho - Yellow pages, white pages, toll-free numbers and the AT&T Toll-SuperPages.com - from Verizon with 11 million businesses in the US
EURO PAGES - The European Business Directory of 500,000 European Companies.
GuideStar - a searchable database of more than 620,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States, provided by Philanthropic Research, Inc. (PRI) and the Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS.)
Internet Nonprofit Center - from the Evergreen State Society.
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. Some companies' catalogs are included or linked, and industry trends web articles are now included.
Annual Reports
Annual Reports Service - from the Public Register's Annual Report Service.
Barron's Annual Report Service - Annual Reports from over 3,500 U.S. Canadian and U.K. companies can be ordered at this site, and shipped the next day by mail if available.
CAROL Company Annual Reports Online - A free service for U.K., European, and Asian and U.S. annual reports; registration is free.
EDGAR Database - Public companies file their financial quarterly and annual reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission which makes information since 1994 available.
Report Gallery's Library of Annual Reports - An online library of 2,200 U.S. annual reports as well as International Reports.
PRARS Annual Report Service - Public Register's Service represents allows you to request copies of annual reports.
Website URLs of Japanese Companies - by the Japan Economic News Council.
Africa
MBendi Information for Africa - "Africa's leading business website and one of the world's top mining, energy and international trade websites."
Asia
Business in Asia.com - Country information for Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam collected by Runckel & Associates an international business consulting firm.
East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources - from the University of Redlands, California.
Focus on INDIA: Business & Technology - Links to News, business sites & technology.
Europe
Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center (CEEBICnet) - U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
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.
Middle East
ArabNet - AP News, Opinion pieces by Arab writers, and Country information. The site is owned by ArabNet Technology (ANT), part of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group, publisher of the leading newspapers and magazines in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including Asharq Al-Awsat.
MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project - reports from a nonpartisan think tank on all aspects of the Middle East.
North America
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada - Includes information on trade, travel, culture and policy.
Strategis - a gateway to Canadian markets, trade, companies,and statistics produced by Industry Canada a department of the Federal government.
Statistics Canada - a porta to social and economics statistics.
World
Country Briefings - from Economist.com.
Country Profiles - from Expatriates.com.
Country Profiles - by Window on the World, Inc, a company that provides human support services around the world.
Deloitte International Tax and Business Guides - Includes guides and snapshots
Erik Herron's Guide to Post-Communist States on the Web - Herron is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.
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, Global Resources, and Market Potential Indicators from the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University (MSU-CIBER.)
interex.be - a site put together by BBL (Bank Brussels Lambert) with information on 83 countries.
NationMaster.com - created by an Australian company, Rapid Intelligence. There is a searchable encyclopedia, country information, maps and statistics. Beware of ads. This site also has a Top Stats section that links to most Corrupt Countries, Most Generous, Most Taxed and more.
Portals to the World - from subject specialists at the Library of Congress with links to information on topics such as culture, education, government and more.
Transparency International - a nonprofit organization that monitors corruption in countries around the world.
U.N.'s INFONATION - 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
Historical Exchange Rates - What
Was the Historical Exchange Rate? from Economic History Services with
data back to 1913 for 40 countries and 1790 for the U.K & the U.S.
xe.com - The Universal Currency Converter ®
E-Commerce
CIO.com
- Metrics - e-business - Facts & figures.
ebusinessforum - from the Economist
Intelligence Unit.
Darwin
Executive guides - E-Business - from Darwin Online.
Electronic Commerce and Electronic Markets - extensive links from brint.com The
Electronic
Commerce: Key Internet Sites - from International Information Programs,
Dept. of State.
Guide
to E-Commerce - Catherwood Library at Cornell University's School of
Labor and Industrial Relations
ZDNet: Tech Update - a free newsletter
Economics
AmosWEB - includes a Gloss*arama,
a Web*pedia, list of Nobel Prize winners and more, from Orley M. Amos Jr,
Oklahoma University.
Bureau of Economic Analysis - contains
historical and current National Income and Product Accounts table, state
and regional data and International Trade.
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 Growth
Resources - Jonathan Temple at the University of Bristol maintains this
site with links to data sets, working papers and more.
Economic Policy Review
- archived articles back to 1995 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
E.H. Net - includes a page for How
Much Is That? for historic GDP and inflation rates, an encyclopedia
E.H.Net Encyclopdia - Economic
History articles which have brief bibliographies, and are signed by university
associated authors.
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.
Foreign Trade
Statistics - U.S. Census Bureau.
Frasier - 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.
The Library of Economics and Liberty
- from the Liberty Fund designed to assemble information that promotes individual
liberty versus collectivist actions.
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.
Encyclopedia
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History - Articles written by experts and part of a site by the Economic History Association. Chief editor is Robert Whaples, from Wake Forest University.
Bplans.com
- Provides free advice and some sample
business and marketing plans.
Business
Plan Basics - from
the United States Small Business Association.
Business
Plan Archive - an online archive of business plans for a variety of
businesses, but especially for dot-com companies. Created by a partnership
of Webmergers.com, the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of
Maryland, the Library of Congress and George Mason University's Center for
History and New Media. Registration is required and to protect proprietary
information, some of the plans are restricted.
Center
for Women's Business Research - research documenting the economic and
social contributions of women-owned firms.
Entrepreuership - Resources from the Internet Public Library. Choose Subject Collections > Business and Economics > Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship
- from the Kauffman Foundation
inc.com - From Inc. Magazine with
information on starting and growing your own business.
Score - The Service Corps of Retired
Executives - an organization that uses the skill and experience of retired
executives to assist individuals with their decisions to begin or to operate
small businesses. The Business toolbox provides help for business plans,
and finance, online workshops benchmarking tools and more.
Small
Business Resources - created by Wahib Nasrallah, Business and Economics
Librarian at the University of Cincinnati.
Women Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century - A one-stop place for information from the U.S. Dept. of Labor and national organizations.
Finance & Investment
CNNfn- 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.
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.
Mutual Fund
Fact Book - from the Investment Company Institute.
Superstar Investor - An
award winning directory of 11,000 links to investing sites.
Yahoo's List of Stock Exchanges
@ BRINT - Maintained by Dr.Yogesh Malhotra,
this site focuses on knowledge management, MIS and information technology
issues. BRINT stands for business researchers' interests.
CEO Express! - Designed to be a busy executive’s starting place for internet information. A meta-search engine is included.
Guide
to Business History Resources - by Richard F. Sharp Business Reference
Services. Science, Technology, & Business Division Library of Congress.
International Business
Information on the Web (IBI) Directory - Lists the URLs of Web Sites
mentioned in International Business Information on the Web HF54.56
.L364 2001
Krislyn's Strictly Business
Sites - a large collection of links to Business information on the Web.
The Skeptical Business
Searcher Companion Web Site - a web site that updates the links cited
in The Skeptical Business Searcher
HF54 .56 .B4685 2004
WTO?GATT Research - by Jeanne Rehbert of the NYU Law Library with links to official documents and tips for searching for more information.
Industries
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: 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.
Latest Industry Statistical
Trends - Mutual Fund statistics from the Investment Company Institute.
Life
Insurers Fact Book, 2005 - from the American Coucil of Life Insurers.
Industry Research Desk
- How to Learn About an Industry or a Specific Company - by Polson Enterprises.
NAICS
* NAICS
Based Historic Statistics - from the U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturing,
Mining & Construction statistics.
* 2002 NAICS Codes
and Titles - that can be searched by keyword.
Retail Industry
- from About.com.
Sources of Information in Transportation
- National Transportation Library with links compiled by subject specialists
who are members of the Transportation Division of the Special Libraries
Association.
Standard Industrial Classification
Search
What's the difference between the Schedule
B codes (for exports) and the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes (for
imports)?
Yahoo! Industry News - News of 10 Industries, from Business Wire, PR Newswire, Standard & Poor's and Reuters.
International Business
Asia-Pacific.com -
links to data sources.
@BRINT - Yogesh Malhotra/University
of Pittsburgh Business School has built a large list of links for international
business, and technology and knowledge management issues.
A
Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons - from the Bureau of International
Labor Affairs and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Foreign
Trade Statistics - from the Bureau of the Census.
Global Business & Finance Resources - part of the International
Economics Network from the University of California at Santa Cruz by
Jamus Jerome Lim with helpful annotations.
Global Business Web - A
free business portal with a resource center of thousands of links to regions
and industries.
Index of Economic Freedom - an index for 192 countries based on 10 factors
that reveal the degree of economic freedom. It is a publication of the and
The Wall Street Journal.
International Trade Administration
- U. S. Department of Commerce includes statistics, country information
and trade agreements.
KPMG's Guide to International
Business Costs - 2004 study that covers 17 industry operations in 11
countries.
Office of the United
States Trade Representative – Hot topics and recent issues.
Statistical Data Locators
- from Nanyang University, Singapore
Vibes - Virtual International Business and Economics Sources from Jeanie Welch/University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
International Organizations
ASEAN - Association of Southeast
Asian Nations with information on trade agreements, statistics and legal
issues.
CAFTA
* CAFTA - from
the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
*Central
America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic - from USINFO.STATE.GOV
ECOWAS - the Economic Community of
W. African States
European Union:
*Europa - Gateway to the
European Union Online
*The European Union: Delegation of the
European Union to the USA - part of the European Commission site.
*WWW Virtual Library:
West European Studies - by Dr. Phil Wilkin who is the West European
Studies Bibliographer for the University of Pittsburgh.
International Monetary Fund Home Page
NAFTA
* Canada
and the North American Free Trade Agreement
* NAFTA
- from the Office of the United States Trade Representative
* NAFTA Resources
- from LANIC, the Latin American Information Center at the University of
Texas at Austin.
OECD Online and OECD
Factbook
United Nations
* Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean - includes press releases, interviews
and publications. * UNESCO Web - United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
* United Nations Home Page.
Welcome to the World Trade Centers Association
The World Bank Group - the site
for information on the developing world
Drucker
Archives - Information by and about Peter Drucker with a searchable
database to citations of his works and life.
IOMA Business Links -Over 1,000
reviewed Internet sites in 17 categories from the Institute of Management
and Administration. .
Thinkers 50 - a ranking with brief biographies of the 50 top business thinkers, by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.
Columbus.org - From the Greater
Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
The Federal Reserve Bank
of Cleveland
OhioBiz - by a web consulting
company, OhioBiz Web Consulting, LLC
Ohio Chamber of Commerce Links
State of Ohio Department
of Development - Business and Trade Links.
Cleveland World Trade Association