Frequently Asked Business Questions

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Accounting

• RIA Accounting
• RIA Checkpoint
• Rutgers Accounting Web
• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory

Business Law

• Cyber Securities Law
• FindLaw LawCrawler (legal and database searching)
• FindForms.com (free legal forms)
• GigaLaw.com
• Ohio Government & Law

Business News

• ABCNews.com: Business Raw News
• BBC News: Business
• BusinessWeek ONLINE (complete contents unavailable)
• CNNmoney
• Crain's Now: The Online Home of Crain's Cleveland Business (current information only)
• Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (includes full text of bank publications)
• Forbes (complete contents unavailable)
• Fortune (complete contents unavailable)
• NewsVoyager.com (access to online international newspapers)
• Regional Business News (newswire services and other publications from latest 30 days, full text)
• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources: Business News
• Yahoo! News: Business Wall Street Journal 1984- (full text)

Company Information

• IPOs (Initial Public Offerings)
  • EDGAR Online Pro: IPO
  • Hoover's Online: IPO Central
  • IPO Data Systems (daily headlines on IPOs)
• Private Companies
  • Forbes (complete contents unavailable)
  • Fortune (complete contents unavailable)
  • Hoover's Online
  • NewsVoyager.com (access to online international newspapers)
  • ReferenceUSA
• Public Companies
  • CNNmoney
  • EDGAR (SEC filings and forms)
  • Europages: The European Business Directory
  • Forbes (complete contents unavailable)
  • Fortune (complete contents unavailable)
  • Hoover's Online
  • INC Magazine
  • Latinvestor: Latin American Financial Directory
  • Mergent Online (historical, 15 years of financial information, business segments, and products)
  • NewsVoyager.com (access to online international newspapers)
  • ReferenceUSA
  • Researching Companies Online (business intelligence information)
  • Standard & Poor's Net Advantage (company and stock information)
  • Thomas Register (limited company information and company links)
  • ValueLine (current stock activity and analysis)
• Non-Profits
  • NewsVoyager.com (access to online international newspapers)
  • NonProfit Gateway (U.S. government site for information on non-profit resources)
  • ReferenceUSA
  • Yahoo: Nonprofit Resources
• Small Businesses
  • CCH Business Owner's Toolkit (click on "Business Tools")
  • Hoover's Online
  • NewsVoyager.com (access to online international newspapers)
  • ReferenceUSA
  • SBA: Small Business Administration
  • Small Business Knowledge Base

Computer and Information Science

• CNET.com (product reviews and tech reviews)
• itmWEB (Information Technology Management WEB)
• Safari Tech Books Online
• searchDatabase.com (database software information for database adminstrators, developers, users)
• TechWeb: The Technology Network
• WWW Virtual Library: Computing and Computing Science
• ZDNet News

CSU Business Department

• About the CSU Business Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

E-Commerce

• E-Commerce Times

Finance

• Bureau of the Public Debt Online (U.S. Department of Treasury)
• CCH Business Owner's Toolkit: Financial Ratios
• Data & Statistics (World Bank Group)
• FinWeb
• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory

Health Care Administration

• National Center for Health Statistics (statistical information, public health, and public policy)
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Health
• USNews.com: Best Hospitals

Industry Information

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Hoover's Online (complete contents unavailable)
• Insure.com: The Insurance Guide
• Sportbusiness
• Standard & Poor's Net Advantage: Industry Surveys
• ValueLine

International Country and Economic Information

• CIA: Handbook of International Economic Statistics
• Country Commercial Guides (U.S. State Department)
• Data & Statistics (World Bank Group)
• Europa
• Europages: The European Business Directory
• Governments on the WWW
• International Labour Organization
• International Monetary Fund: Country Information
• National Trade Data Bank
• OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Ohio Department of Development
• Stat-USA (includes National Trade Data Bank)
• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources: International Electronic Commerce
• The World Factbook
• World Trade Organization
• Yahoo! Commercial Directory (trade organizations by countries)
• Yahoo! Commerical Directory (trade organizations by region)

Management and Labor Relations

• AFL-CIO
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• International Labour Standards
• Labor Market Information: Civilian Labor Force Estimates (Ohio)
• Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates (U.S. Department of Labor)
• U.S. Department of Labor

Marketing (includes Advertising and Market Research)

• AdAge.com
• Advertising World
• Marketing Plan Website (Cleveland State University)
• MarketingPower.com (American Marketing Association)
• Research Resources (advertising)

MBA Information

• The MBA Program Information Site
• Nance College of Business Administration graduate programs (business graduate programs including MBA)

Media

• ACNielsen
• Arbitron
• Nielsen NetRatings

North American Industrial Classification System

• Bridge Between NAICS and SIC
• How NAICS Will Affect Data Users
• NAICS: North American Industrial Classification System
• SIC: Standard Industrial Classifications (Index)

Patents and Trademarks

• U.S. Department of Commerce: Patents and Trademarks
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources: Patents

Reference Resources

• A Dictionary of Accounting (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of Business (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of Computing (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of the Internet (Oxford University Press)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Business Source Complete
  • Regional Business News (latest 30 days)
  • Wall Street Journal
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (CASC)
  • Computer Source
  • Crain's Cleveland Business Archives
  • Economia y Negocios
  • Electronic Journal Center: Business, Economics, and Management
  • Electronic Journal Center: Computer Science
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Insurance Periodicals Index
  • International Abstracts of Human Resources
  • Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical
  • Safari Tech Books Online
  • Vente et Gestion

Schools of Business

• Columbia Business School
• Harvard Business School
• James J. Nance College of Business Administration (CSU)
• Wharton Information Network (University of Pennsylvania)
• Yale School of Management

Standard Industrial Classification

• Bridge Between NAICS and SIC
• NAICS: North American Industrial Classification System
• SIC: Standard Industrial Classifications (Index)
• SIC: Standard Industrial Classifications (Tables)

Statistics

• Bureau of Economic Analysis: Industry Accounts Data
• Current Industrial Reports: Products
  • By NAICS Subsector
  • By Subject Title
• Retail & Wholesale Trade (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Lexis-Nexis Statistical
• Stat-USA (includes National Trade Data Bank)
• U. S. Census Bureau
• Trade Development (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
• VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
• The World Factbook

Stock Exchanges

• AMEX: American Stock Exchange
• NASDAQ
• NYSE: New York Stock Exchange

Stocks and Investments

• American Express Financial Services
• BigCharts
• Bloomberg.com
• Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• CNBC
• CNNmoney
• Dow Jones Averages
• Dow Jones Indexes
• freerealtime.com
• MSN Money
• NVST.com: Private Equity Network
• SmartMoney.com
• StreetEYE Investment Research
• ValueLine
• Yahoo! Finance
• Zacks.com (analytical tools and financial information for investors by Zacks Investment Research)

Taxes

• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
• Tax History Project

Wages and Salaries

• Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Salary Calculator
• Salary.com