Business
Websites

Author: Kathy Enger

Ad Age - Mounted by AdvertisingAge magazine. There are links to daily news stories, advertisers' home pages, and discussions of advertising matters.

Advertising World
http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/

American Demographics/Marketing Tools - Web site for American Demographics and Marketing Tools magazines. Both are published by Dow Jones. Many articles and features are available for free here. Also, of course, there is subscription information and a catalog of additional products.

America's career info net
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
Find career information like job outlooks, wages, education, resume builder, and scholarships.

American Fact Finder
http://factfinder.census.gov
Quick facts provided by the American Census Bureau.

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
http://www.aicpa.org/index.htm

Annual Reports Online
http://www.zpub.com/sf/arl/arl-www.html
This site provides links to other useful sites on financial reporting and investing, and provides information on how to read annual financial reports.

Better Business Bureau - Excellent source of information on the network of better business bureaus that serve the U.S. Also a source of news on current advertising claims problems.

Bplans.com
http://www.bplans.com/
How to write a business plan, start a business, buy a business, and other great information for future business owners.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov
Find current labor statistics.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.doc.gov

Business & Economics Datalinks: Economy and Financial Data Sources
http://www.econ-datalinks.org

Business Ethics
http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
This site has 100's of links to various sites relating to business ethics.

Business Plan Software and Sample Business Plans
http://www.bplans.com

Commerce Business Daily - Free searching of the current day's CBD. There is a charge for anything more extensive.

Consumer Law Page - Mounted by the Alexander Law Firm, this site provides articles,brochures, and links to other resources in consumer law.

Cornell Legal Information Institute - Very nice resource for all types of law resources. Includes a clickable listing of recent Supreme Court opinions.

Consumer Price Indexes
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Country commercial guides
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Information on EDGER, how to file, and access to filings.

County Business Patterns
http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

Currencies and Currency-Exchange Rate
http://www.gwdg.de/~ifbg/currency.html

Doing Business
http://rru.worldbank.org/doingbusiness/

Economic Growth Resources
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/

EDGAR
www.sec.gov
Financial statements on public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Emergence of advertising in America: 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/

EPI DataZone
http://www.Epinet.org/datazone
Access to data in the areas of wage and compensation trends, family earnings and income trends, prices and low wage labor market indicators.

European Business Directory - Searchable directory of 150,000 European companies.

FedWorld Home Page - Provides links to federal government resources.

Financial Data Finder (Ohio State University) - Gateway to financial information for the academic researcher. Mounted by the Finance Dept. at Ohio State University.

FindLaw - One stop shopping for legal information. Easy to use. Has links to decisions for all federal circuit courts.

FIN Web Home Page (Univ. of Texas - Austin) - Gateway to financial information.

FITA: International Trade Web Resources
http://www.fita.org/webindex/

Foreign Trade Division Home Page - Home page of the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division. Description of their programs and links to their resources.

Fuld & Company, Inc.
http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html
Research and consulting firm, great links to competitor intelligence resources.

Gallup Organization Web Site - This site provides information on products available from Gallup,as well as some results from recent Gallup surveys.

Holt Report Index Page - Daily stock market summary. Provides highs and lows for market indices.

Holt Report
(summary of current day's financial market activity)
http://207.67.198.21/holt/curr.htm

Industry research desk
http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/
This site provides a step-by-step process on how to research an industry, or search from many industry portals, and view NAICS classification system.

Institute of Management and Administration Business Directory
http://www.ioma.com/dir

International Business Resources - Gateway to numerous international business resources. Put together by Carol Oakes at Boise State University Library in Boise, Idaho.

International Law Resources (WWW Virtual Library) - Gateway to numerous resources in international law.

International Trade Web Resources
http://www.fita.org/webindex/index.html

Internet Resources for Non-Profit Organizations - University of Michigan's resource guide to information of interest to non-profit organizations.

Journal of Finance: Other Finance Related Sites - Gateway to educational materials in finance. Maintained by the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.

MarketingPower - Homepage for the American Marketing Association. Provides info on the association and its services.

Mutual Funds Magazine ONLINE - Excellent source of information on all aspects of mutual funds.

Oanda
http://www.oanda.com

Project Finance Portal
http://www.hbs.edu/projfinportal/

Researching companies online
http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/index.html
Great information on how to conduct research on businesses via the web.

Researching the European Union
http://www.eurunion.org/infores/resguide.htm

SmartPros Accounting
http://accounting.smartpros.com/

Standard & Poor's 500 Index Calculation
http://www.secapl.com/secapl/quoteserver/current.html

Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/bowenj/antitrust/INTRO.htm

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
http://www.taxsites.com

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
www.thomasregister.com/index.html
Industrial products or services available at about 155,000 U.S. and Canadian companies.

Two Measures of Gross Domestic Product (Explanation of GDP)
http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/prin/txt/GDPch/GDP9.html

US Small business administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
How to start, finance, and manage a small business, and how to handle disaster recovery.

VIBES: Virtual international business and economic sources
http://library.uncc.edu/display/?dept=reference&format=open&page=68
This site has a large number of links to useful web sites arranged by topic, region, and nation.

Wachowicz's Web World: web sites for discerning finance students
http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html
Great links to finance resources on the internet. Also offers quizzes and power point slides.

Wall Street Central
http://www.wscentral.com

West's Legal Directory - Directory of lawyers and law firms mounted by West Publishing Co.

The World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org

World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org