Companion Website for the Text

- Companion website for the text

- job descriptions in finance and other areas

- current issues facing CFO’s

- information on forms of business organization, ‘ownership structures”

and “business and human resources”

- in-depth legal information

re: partnerships

- translation for any business type

- to form an LLC

- current issues facing the financial executive

- business ethics

- info on Sarbanes-Oxley

- SEC

- info on the exchange

- Tokyo Exchange in English

- London Stock Exchange

- company financial information; stock quotes; dividend info

- company financial information

- good investor site

- EDGAR database has fin. statements for US public corps.

- Financial Accounting Standards Board

( - IRS

- company financial info

– company financial info

- select “Investor tools”

- to examine ratios for companies, their industry, and a

market index

- Women’s BusinessCenter

- Pricewaterhouse Coopers

- research links for growth rates

- growth rates

- NAICS

- for gathering financial statement info

- key financial concepts

- “Money/Retirement”

- Windows-based financial calculator

- Rule of 72

- Excel

- time value of money calculators

- time value applications

- good bond site

- online bond calculators

- interest rate info

- “Bonds”

- current market rates

- for bond investors

- info on individual bonds

- The Bond Market Assn.

- SEC filings

- criteria to rate corp. and muni bonds

- criteria to rate corp and muni bonds

- bond market site

- U.S. inflation-indexed bonds

- TRACE

- current bond prices

- to purchase newly issued corp bonds

- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

- to purchase Treas. Bonds from govt.

- Treasury yield info

- yield curve info

- “Economy & Bonds”

- historical interest rates

- credit card calculator

- loan amortization calculator

- “ FRED II” Bank Prime Loan Rate

- amortization calculator for loans

- calculating future values

- calculating the number of periods

- “How much, at what rate, when?”

- to adjust your return for taxes

- AT&T “Annual Report & SEC filings”

- Wal-Mart financial statements

- Boeing financial statements

- equity valuation techniques

- dividend discount model in action

– New York Stock Exchange field trip; “Anatomy of a Trade”

- latest NASDAQ stock quotes; beta

- INET - watch trading taking place

- capital budgeting for small businesses

- freeware NPV calculator

- links to finance-related sites

- today’s return by market sector

– market history

- intraday and long term charts

- review of basic stats

- info on the EMH

- free online investing classes

- stock info; beta

- risk and diversification

- beta

- aggregate growth estimates

- Betas and T- bill rates

- industry-level WACC’s

- “online publications”; overview – bankruptcy process

- American Bankruptcy Institute

- bankruptcy

- info on upcoming

stock splits

- list of well-known VC firms

- venture capital info

- info on what firms are going public

- Dutch auction IPO’s

- Merrill Lynch; investment bank info

- IPO info

- IPO Central

- Assn. for Financial Professionals

- electronic resources available for managing float

- international view on cash management

- global cash management services

- free cash budgeting spreadsheet

- for assistance with working capital management

- credit process for small businesses

- Natl. Assn of Credit Management

- business reports on credit

- Dun & Bradstreet

- Society for Inventory Mngmt Benchmarking Analysis

- American Depositary Receipt

- current LIBOR rates

- info on doing business globally

- SWIFT

- currency rates

- currency converter

- international news and events

- exchange rates and pictures of non-US currencies

- inflation and exchange rates