Theme: Finance and Accounting

GetSmart.com
GetSmart (www.getsmart.com) is an information service that offers advice on business as well as personal loans.

Loan Application Tips and Guides
At the Tips and Guides section of the Lenders Interactive site,
www.lenders-interactive.com, you’ll find valuable suggestions to improve the quality of a personal or business loan application and avoid common mistakes.

Mutual Funds
At the Vanguard Online University, www.vanguard.com/educ/univ.html, you’ll find a course called “The Fundamentals of Mutual Funds.” Use it to learn about the basics of mutual funds.

CFO Magazine
What challenges do today’s financial managers face? To find out, browse through recent issues of CFO magazine at www.cfonet.com.

Community Banks
The website of the Independent Bankers Association of America provides leads to all U.S. community banks. Visit the website at www.ibaa.org.

Suspicious Practices
The FIDC encourages people to report suspicious Internet banking sites such as those offering extremely high interest rates on deposits or extremely low interest rates on loans. Learn about other suspicious practices and what you can do to report them to the FDIC by visiting www.fdic.gov/consumer/suspicious.

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
FASB is a private organization responsible for establishing financial accounting standards in the united States. What issues is the FASB working on now? Check out the news section of www.accountingnet.com.

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
To find out more about the accounting profession and becoming a CPA, visi the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’s website at www.aicpa.org/ and click on “Students”.

Accounting Library
The Accounting Library site has a virtual consultant to help companies choose the best accounting applications for their needs. Check it out at www.excelco.com.

Corporate Reports
Corporate reports filed with the SEC are now available on the Web at the EDGAR (Electronic Date Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) website, www.edgarhp.htm. First, read about the EDGAR system; then go to the search page www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm. To see the type of information that companies must file with the SEC, use the search feature to locate a recent filing by a well-known company.

Federal Reserve
To learn more about how the Federal Reserve System works, visit the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis at www.stls.frb.org/publications/pleng.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The FDIC is an independent, quasi-public corporation backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. It insures deposit accounts in commercial banks and thrift institutions. The FDIC gets so many requests about banks’ insurance status that it added an option to determine “Is my bank insured?” on its website. Visit www.fdic.gov.

Top American Banks
Which U.S. banks are the top global lenders? Click on Ranking the Banks at www.americanbanker.com.

Online Banking
To learn about the newest online banking products and services, visit www.electronicbanker.com/html/news

Finance Glossary
When you come across a finance term you don’t understand, visit the Hypertextual Finance Glossary at www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm.

Venture Capital
Browse the Venture Capital Resource Library, www.vfinance.com, for the latest news in the venture capital industry. Use the venture capital area of Finance Hub, www.financehub.com/vc, to link to different venture capital firms.

Risk Management
The International Finance and Commodities Institute (IFCI) Risk Watch site, www.risk.ifci.ch/index.htm, offers an excellent introduction to risk management concepts. Learn how Reuters Risk Management Services, www.risk.reuters.com, helps companies with global operations identify, measure, and manage financial risk.

Source: The Future of Business, Millennium Edition, South-Western College Publishing

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