Get insight and analysis about the companies, industries, and people that drive the economy, along with the powerful tools to find and connect to the right people.

Provides many links to helpful accounting articles and publications.

This is my go-to site for plain-English descriptions of financial, econonic and accounting terms and concepts. The articles are helpful too. Just enter keywords in the search window to find specific topics. I used the site frequently for GMAN 506 and GMAN 503.

Bloomberg.com is among the top five most-trafficked financial sites on the Web. It is regarded as a premier site for news and financial information.

Great place for financial news and information.

Google Finance offers a broad range of information about stocks, mutual funds, public and private companies. In addition, Google Finance offers interactive charts, news and fundamental data.

The Motley Fool. From 401K to stock investment.

This is a plain english description of the basic financial statments per the Securities Exchange Commission.  The site breaks down each statement by telling you how to read them, and what you can learn from each.

Good source of Financial news, also has Fortune Magazine articles

Link to American Institute of CPAs.

Very helpful site that can be used to clarify "how to" and answer accounting related questions.  

Good Website to get insight and analysis about the companies, industries, and Stocks. You can find the latest news, market data, reports, research and analysis.

Here are the best practices of leading practitioners and advisers on benchmarking. 

"Resist the understandable urge to settle for a possibly superficial interpretation" - David Stauffer, Harvard Business
"Without the evidence provided by benchmarking, any claim that your unit is among the best is just an opinion." - Steve Viera, Intel

This website provides tutorial on variance analysis.

This site includes a very easy to use financial ratio calculator.  Simply enter the company's financial information, and the ratio calculator will create a ratio report for you.  Great tool to use for investment research.

Useful link to accounting basics, lectures, and tutorials.

Gives simple explanations for investing terms.

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Provides a solid overview of how to develop your financial statements from your ledger as well as how to properly address journal entries.

How do you prepare a budget for your company or for your department in your company?  This url will provide essential information like figuring out your fixed and variable cost and proceeds to getting you to reflect on your profit goal.  In the current cycle of cost cutting, it is even more important to understand the budgeting process and this short article will get you started off quickly.  Enjoy.

Daily Finance website will give you all the financials for a publicly traded company and ratio's.  Just plug in the name of the company (or the stock symbol) in the search field to enjoy the results.