Roanoke College Business Department page
A Guide to Business and Economics Reference Sources

Databases:

• Bloomberg Online- Financial News
• CNNMoney - the financial network
• Business & Industry (Bus/Industry)
• Business Dateline
• Business Organizations
• EconLit

Recommended Internet Sites:

Accounting:

• AICPA Online - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Online
• American Accounting Association

Economics:

• Economics Statistics Briefing Room
• STAT-USA (Call extension 2295 for more information)- Provides business and economic information produced by the Federal Government from more than 50 Federal agencies. This includes the National Trade Data Bank and the Economic Bulletin Board.
• Federal Reserve Board - Home page for the Federal Reserve.
• History of Economic Thought

Finance:

• American Stock Exchange- Provides market summaries in addition to information on options and derivatives.
• Edgar- Provides Securities & Exchanges Commission (SEC-10K) reports.
• FinanCenter- Financial calculators
• Hoover's Online- Provides a "Search the MasterList Plus database" of free company information searchable by name, location, or ticker symbol.
• Moody's Investors Service
• Nasdaq- Provides stock quotes and activity indexes.
• New York Stock Exchange- Provides market summaries in addition to daily closing prices since 1966.
• StockMaster- Provides charts of stock price history.
• Quicken.com - Premire site for all types of financial information.

Human Resources:

• workindex.com- An Index of Internet Sites Related to the Field of Industrial and Labor Relations.

International:

• US Embassies -Including economic and business information

Small Business:

• Small Business Administration

Tax:

• U.S. Tax Code On-Line- Provides the capability to search the full text of the U.S. Tax Code, Title 26.