Business and Finance Study Guide

Accounting

• AuditNet
• Tax & Accounting Sites Directory (maintained by an accounting professor at Univ. of IL)

Associations

• International Customer Service Association (ICSA)
• National Association for Female Executives
• Management
• Marketing
  

Business Finders

• Anywho (AT&T)
• BigBook
• Database America
• 555-1212.com (Business, residential & government)
• GTE SuperPages
• InfoSpace
• Reverse Lookup
• ReversePhoneDirectory
• Switchboard (Business & residential)
• Yellow Pages (Yahoo)
• Yellow Pages Online
  

Business Law

• American Bankruptcy Institute
• International Business Resources on the WWW (MSU-CIBER)
• Lectric Law Library's Laypeople's Law Lounge

Company Profiles

• 411 Stocks (LJ 99 “Best Reference Site”)
• Better Business Bureau
• Forbes 500
• Hoover's Online

Consumer Information

• About Your Broker (NASD Regulation Public Disclosure Program)
• Best Places to Live, Work, Play, or Retire
• Better Business Bureau
• A Bell Tolls (Long Distance Telephone & Telecommunications Clearinghouse)
• Chemical Scorecard (Environmental Defense Fund)
• Complete Glossary of Insurance Coverage Explanations
• Consumers Digest Online
• Consumer Energy Information
• Consumer Information Catalog (U.S. General Services Admin.)
• Consumer Insurance Alerts
• Consumer's Resource Handbook (U.S. General Services Admin.)
• Consumer World
• Equifax (credit reporting agency)
• Findlaw Consumer (legal information & advice)
• Florida Medical Malpractice Home Page
• Food Safety Info Retrieval System
• Free Advise (The Easy to Use Site for Legal Information)
• Healthfinder Gateway to Consumer Health Information
• National Fraud Information Center
• Reader's Digest at Home ("how to library")
• Social Securities Handbook, 1997 (SSA, 13th ed)
• Travel Health Online
• U.S. Consumer Gateway
• Veteran’s Administration
• WebPricer
  

Currency

• Currency Exchange Rates (Kurt Swanson-Lund University, Sweden)
• Currency Rates & Information (Washington Post)
• Foreign Exchange Rates
• History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
• Universal Currency Converter (incl. prices for gold & silver)

Dictionaries

• Complete Guide to Insurance Coverage Explanations
• Financial Glossary (Duke Univ.)
• Investor Words (Webfinance, Inc.)

Directories

• Fortune 500
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Federal Business

• Commerce Business Daily
• FedBizOpps (procurement opportunities over $25,000)

Florida - Business

• Florida - The New State of Business
• Tourism - Recreation - State Parks

Industry Classification

• NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)

International Business

• Country Commercial Guides (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Statistics

Mega

• Brint.com
• Business & Financial Internet Resources (CFLC’s Reference Desk)
• CEO Express
• Web's 1450 Best Business Sites (Wall Street Executive Library)

Periodicals

• American City Business Journals
• Financial Times
• Valueline (must register to access articles, research tools & information ...must subscribe for full information)
• WorkingWoman

Real Estate

• Bank Rate Monitor
• Domania (database of home sales prices)
• E-Loan 
• HSH Associates
• Orange County Property Appraiser
• Property Assessments Online
• Quicken Mortgage
• Realtor.com
• Search Orlando MLS for Homes
• Seminole County Appraiser’s Office - SIMON (Seminole Interactive Maps Online)
• Today's Rates (Mortgageselect.com)

Records Management

• Records & Information Management Resource List (Alan S. Zaben)

Small Business

• Small Business Start-up Kit
• U.S. Small Business Association (SBA)
• Office of Women's Business Ownership (SBA)
  

Statistics

• Advanced Monthly Retail Sales (US Census Bureau)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• County & City Data Book (Univ. of Virginia)
• Producer Price Indexes (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Retail & Wholesale Trade (US Census Bureau)
• US Economy at a Glance (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Taxes

• Higher Education Tax Credits
• IRS Web Site
• Quicken.com
• Tax & Accounting Sites Directory
• Will Yancey’s Home Page
  

Tutorials

• Investing in Bonds: Tutorial

Suggested Periodical Databases For Business

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Some full-text
• Business Dateline (OCLC) Full-text
• Business Organizations, Agencies and Publications Directory (OCLC)
• Business Source Elite (EBSCO) Some full-text
• Custom Newspapers (Gale) Full-text
• EconLit (OCLC)
• General BusinessFile ASAP - Periodical Content (Gale) Full-text
• General BusinessFile ASAP - Reference Content (Gale) Full-text
• Newspaper Abstracts (OCLC)
• Regional Business News (EBSCO) Full-text newswire
• Wilson Business Full Text (Wilson) Full-text

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