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Websites
Bizjournals
http://www.bizjournals.com
Archival content for 41 metro US business weeklies; access to local and regional business news.
ConsumerSearch
www.consumersearch.com
A starting place for consumer research.
Everything International by Lloyd C. Russow
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/russow.html
Links to free resources on international business and marketing and country studies.
Federal Citizen Information Center
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
A clearinghouse for government services and programs and consumer problems.
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/toc.html
An internet guide to US law, articles, schools, organizations, news, consultants and lawyers.
Inc.com
http://www.inc.com
Articles on wide list of topics as well as information about writing a business plan and numerous "how to" guides.
Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/
Created by DePaul University this site provides access to net resources on ethics.
MarketingCharts
http://www.marketingcharts.com
Free downloadable marketing charts and spreadsheets.
U.S. Government Documents
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/rref/index.html
Links to selected government documents available through Columbia University Libraries.
AccountingNet
http://www.accountingnet.com/
A searchable database for news, interviews with notables, innovative ideas and job and resume applications. Provides access to accounting associations and vendors of related products.
American Accounting Association
http://aaahq.org/index.cfm
AAA home page providing information on accounting topics, links to journals and newsletters, standards and reference sites.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
http://www.aicpa.org/index.htm
A searchable site for public accountants including information about the organization as well as publications and an interactive forum.
Financial Accounting Standards Board
http://www.fasb.org/
Provides news, information, and education for auditors and users of financial information.
American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov
Includes industry and business facts, community profiles, links to economic census reports and geographic summary tables.
County Business Patterns
http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html
Economic data for American counties by industry.
Economic Censuses
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html
Industry data on a 5 year basis with 1997 latest.
Population and Housing
http://www.census.gov/population/www/
The decennial census providing extensive demographic information.
U.S Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
Census data from the prime source!
- Company / Stock Market / Industry / Investing
Emerging Markets International Service
http://www.securities.com
Hoovers.com
www.hoovers.com
An excellent web site for searching out company, stock and industry information. Some parts of the database are for "Members Only" but there's a lot for free including a selection of newspaper and magazine articles about many companies.
Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/
A similar site to Hoovers that provides company and stock information for free.
DowJones
www.dowjones.com
Provides business and industry financial news.
EDGAR: Electronic SEC Filings
http://www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm
Documents filed by public companies including corporate annual and 10K reports. Available here and at www.FreeEdgar.com
Investorguide
http://www.investorguide.com/
Provides access to all kinds of investment information including stock analysis, mutual funds, loans, etc.; created by WebFinance, Inc.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
Presents the new code to industry classification, as developed by NAFTA. Provides cross references to the older SIC codes.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html
Presents the version of industrial classification previous to the NAICS. Please note that this version is still widely used.
CNN the Financial Network
http://www.cnnfn.com/
Current financial and business news , a web version of the tv program, CNNfn. Includes business news, personal finance and global information as well as industry and stock info, mortgage news, etc.
Currency Converter
http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic
Dismal.com
www.dismal.com
Provides economic info. including news, data, domestic and international, along with links to a wide range of web resources.
Economic Indicators
www.economicindicators.gov
Euro
http://ec.europa.eu/euro/index_en.html
Official homepage for the future currency.
Financial Services Fact Book
http://www.iii.org/financial
Includes industry overviews for financial services, insurance, banking, securities, and finance companies along with data, charts, graphs, and commentary.
FINWeb
http://www.finweb.com/
Economics directory site which provides links to journals, papers and databases including links to search engines specifically for economic and financial information.
Money—Past, Present and Future
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/money.html
Site linking to history of and research about money and monetary policy.
Oanda
http://www.oanda.com
Currency converter which calculates current and historical currencies.
Regional Economic Conditions (RECON)
http://www2.fdic.gov/recon/
RECON was originally designed to assist the FDIC in the examination process by providing economic information at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), and county levels. Anyone with Internet access is able to drill down to any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time.
Wachowicz's Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students
http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html
The following financial management web sites are grouped to correspond with the major topic headings in Fundamentals of Financial Management, 10th ed., Prentice-Hall (1998) by James Van Horne and John Wachowicz.
Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org
World Bank publishes this collection of reports by international analysts to help business people worldwide; reports include starting a business and dealing with contracts, licenses, etc.; other reports might address gender topics and city rankings.
BEonline Plus (Library of Congress business directory)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/index.html
Business.gov
http://www.business.gov
"One stop shopping" for small business resources--a collaboration of 21 federal agencies.
SCORE: counselors to America's small business
www.score.org
"A nonprofit dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the ...growth of small business nationwide."
U.S. Small Business Administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
Includes publications, laws, regulations, reports, statistics, loan information and government related info, along with links to business topics of interest.
Fedsats
http://www.fedstats.gov
Statistical publications of 70 government agencies.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.gov
Economic statistics. Also provides access to the Survey of Current Business, a monthy governmental publication.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov
Labor, economic, statisical data, including stats on unemployment and consumer price indexes. Includes full text of Monthly Labor Review and Occupational Outlook Quarterly.
United Nations Statistics Division
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/statdiv.htm
Links to socioeconomic data for 229 countries.
Vermontguides
http://www.vermontguides.com
Includes an index to the Burlington area Business Digest magazine.
Vermont International Trade Alliance
http://www.vermonttrade.com/
An organization providing Vermont businesses with international trade assistance. | 
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