RESOURCES
Financial Sites
Investment Links

• The Motley Fool: (Free) The Motley Fool's Website.
• CNNMoney: (Free) A lot of useful information.
• Quicken: (Free) Easy to use and a lot of good information.
• World Wide Quotes
• Big Charts: (Free) One of the better sites for charting and other information.
• Morningstar: Most of the good information is for subscribers.
• The Street: Full of good information.
• Silicon Investor
• Bloomberg: Lots of good information and always improving.
• Funds Interactive: (Free)
• IQC: Great site for charting.
• Earning Whispers: Find out earnings before they are reported.
• Lycos Investing: (Free) Much improved since acquiring Quote.com.
• Zacks Investor Research: The place to go for estimates.
• Briefing
• INVESTools: A small amount of free stuff.
• Raging Bull: Excellent site for message boards.
• Hoover's Online: A great site with great resources.
• DBC Online (Esignal.com)
• Invest-FAQ: A good site to get questions answered.

Business Valuation and Related Links

• Prof. Damodaran: (Free) Professor Damodaran of NYU is the author of several books on valuation. Site contains Excel™ templates that can be used for valuation projects.
• American Society of Appraisers: (Free)
• NVST: For a fee, you can find out anything you want about valuations in specific industries and more.
• Institute of Business Appraisers
• Brint: The place for business research.

Organizations and Publications Links

• CPA Journal: (Free) Contains archives of old articles.
• Financial Accounting Standards Board: (Free)
• Governmental Accounting Standards Board: (Free)
• American Institute of CPAs: (Free) A good place to start looking for accounting information.
• Smart Money: (Free) Smart Money Magazine. A great source for personal finance information.
• Accounting Net: (Free) Provides links to state society homepages. A growing site for accountants and other professionals.
• Business Finance Mag.com: (Free) Monthly magazine that provides coverage on financial & accounting technology, compensation & benefits and other issues. Offers free subscriptions.
• CFO Magazine: CFO Magazine's Homepage. Excellent resources.
• Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal online. One of the best pay sites. Discounted price if you subscribe to the print version.

Accounting Links

• Links to the BIG FIVE Accounting Firms
• Ernst and Young: (Free)
• KPMG Peat Marwick: (Free)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers: (Free)
• Other Accounting Links
• Computer CPA: The Accountant's Home Page.
• JWalk & Associates: Excellent source for help with Excel™. Includes Excel™ templates to download.

SEC and Related Links

• SEC: (Free) A wealth of information but not the easiest site to get around. Good starting point for rules, regulations and new information.
• EDGAR Online: Small amount of free information.
• 10k Wizard: (Free) A good site; you can get this same information elsewhere, however.

Other Helpful Sites
Government Links

• The Yellow Book: (Free) The Government Auditing Standards site.
• Thompson: (Free) Online guide to Federal Program Compliance and Audits.
• Thomas: (Free) U.S. Congress on the Internet.
• U.S. Business Advisor: (Free) Designed to help businesses get answers to questions about the Federal Government.
• U.S. Census Bureau: (Free) The Government's statistician. A lot of information on a lot of topics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: (Free) All sorts of stats.
• FedWorld: (Free) Government site search engine.
• Department of Commerce: (Free) Good starting point for other Government web sites, with links to many of them.

"One-Stop Shopping Sites"

• CEOExpress: (Free) Designed by a busy executive for busy executives.
• CPANet: Over 1,000 indexed web sites.