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Chapter 1 For job descriptions in finance and other areas, visit www.careers-in-business.com. For current issues facing CFOs, see www.cfo.com. For more information on forms of business organization, see the "Small Business" section at www.nolo.com. How hard is it to form an LLC? Visit www.llc.com to find out. Business ethics are considered at www.business-ethics.com. To learn more about the SEC, visit www.sec.gov. To learn more about the exchanges, visit www.nyse.com and www.nasdaq.com. Chapter 2 Two excellent sites for company financial information are finance.yahoo.com and money.cnn.com. Disney has a good investor site at www.disney.com. Annual and quarterly financial statements (and lots more) for most public U.S. corporations can be found in the EDGAR database at www.sec.gov. The home page for the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) is www.fasb.org. The IRS has a great web site! (www.irs.org) Chapter 3 Company financial information can be found many places on the Web, including www.financials.com, www.equityweb.com, and www.wsrn.com. Go to www.marketguide.com and follow the "Ratio Comparison" link to examine comparative ratios for a huge number of companies. Entrepreneurial Edge (edge.lowe.org) provides educational information aimed at smaller, newer companies. Follow the "money" link to read about financial statements. The on-line Women’s Business Center has more information on financial statements, ratios, and small business topics (www.onlinewbc.org). Ratios used to analyze technology firms can be found at www.chalfin.com under the "Publications" link. PricewaterhouseCoopers has a useful utility for extracting EDGAR data. Try it at edgarscan.pwcglobal.com. Learn more about NAICS at www.naics.com. Chapter 4 You can find growth rates under the research links at www.multexinvestor.com and finance.yahoo.com. Spreadsheets to use for pro forma statements can be obtained at www.jaxworks.com. Treasury Point has a cash flow forecasting tutorial in its "Knowledge" section (www. treasurypoint.com). To see how one company thinks about sustainable growth, see www.sustainablegrowth.conoco.com. Chapter 5
For a discussion of time value concepts (and lots more) see www.financeprofessor.com. A brief introduction to key financial concepts is available at www.teachmefinance.com. For a downloadable, Windows-based financial calculator, go to www.calculator.org. Why does the Rule of 72 work? See www.datachimp.com. How much do you need at retirement? Check out the "Money/Retirement" link at www.about.com. Learn more about using Excel for time value and other calculations at www.studyfinance.com. Chapter 6 Time value applications abound on the Web. See, for example, www.collegeboard.com, www.1stmortgagedirectory. com, and personal.fidelity.com. Chapter 7 A good bond site to visit is bonds.yahoo.com, which has loads of useful information. On-line bond calculators are available at personal.fidelity.com; interest rate information is available at www.bankrate.com. Follow the
"Other Investment" link at investorguide.com
to Current market rates are available at www.bankrate.com. Information for bond investors can be found at www.investinginbonds.com. Information on individual bonds can be found at www.bondsonline.com. www.e-analytics.com has more bond information. The Bond Market Association web site is www.bondmarkets.com. Want detailed information on the amount and terms of the debt issued by a particular firm? Check out their latest financial statements by searching SEC filings at www.sec.gov. Want to know what criteria are commonly used to rate corporate and municipal bonds? Go to www.standardandpoors.com, www.moodys.com, or www.fitchinv.com. If you’re nervous about the level of debt piled up by the U.S. government, don’t go to www.public debt.treas.gov, or to www. brillig.com/debt_clock! Learn all about government bonds at www.ny.frb.org. Another good bond market site is money.cnn.com. Official information on U.S. inflation-indexed bonds is at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/gsr/gsrlist.htm. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis maintains dozens of on-line files containing macroeconomic data as well as rates on U.S. Treasury issues. Go to www.stls.frb.org/fred/files. Current and historical Treasury yield information is available at www.publicdebt. treas.gov/of/ofaucrt.htm. On-line yield curve information is available at www.bloomberg.com/markets. Chapter 8 Students who are interested in equity valuation techniques should check out the "Investment Models" section within the "Business" category at www.yahoo.com. See the dividend discount model in action at www.dividenddiscountmodel.com. How big is the bid-ask spread on your favorite stock? Check out the latest quotes at money.cnn.com! Take a virtual field trip to the New York Stock Exchange at www.nyse.com. Nasdaq (www.nasdaq.com) has a great web site; check it out! You can get real-time stock quotes on the Web. See finance.yahoo.com for details. Chapter 9 Find out more about capital budgeting for small businesses at www.smallbusinesslearning.net. You can get a freeware NPV calculator at www.wheatworks.com. Chapter 10 No web links for Chapter 10. Chapter 11 No web links for this chapter Chapter 12 How did the market do today? Find out at finance.yahoo.com. Go to www.smartmoney.com/marketmap for a cool Java applet that shows today’s returns by market sector. For more on market history, visit www.globalfindata.com. Go to www.bigcharts.com to see both intraday and long-term charts. For an easy-to-read review of basic stats, check out www.robertniles.com/stats. Look under the "contents" link at www.investorhome.com for more info on the EMH. Chapter 13 Want more information on investing? Bloomberg offers free on-line classes at www.bloomberguniversity.com. www.quicken.com is a great site for stock info. For more on risk and diversification, visit www.investopedia.com/university. For more on beta, see www.wallstreetcity.com and moneycentral.msn.com. Betas are easy to find on the Web. Try finance.yahoo.com and money.cnn.com. Chapter 14 Check
out these options exchanges: To learn more about options,
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information on options and the underlying companies, see www.optionsnewsletter. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange has a good discussion of options: www.phlx.com/products. See www.esopassociation.org for a site devoted to employee stock options. For an employee stock option calculator, visit www.stock-options.com. For more information on ESOs, try the National Center for Employee Ownership at www.nceo.org. For more on convertible bonds, see www.convertbond.com. Chapter 15 Aggregate growth estimates can be found at www.zacks.com/earnings. Betas and T-bill rates can both be found at www.bloomberg.com. To get a feel for actual, industry-level WACCs, visit valuation.ibbotson.com. Visit www.sternstewart.com for more on EVA. Chapter 16 For a list of well-known VC firms, see www.vfinance.com. The Internet is a tremendous source of venture capital information, both for suppliers and demanders of capital. For example, the site at www.dealflow.com prompts you to search the firm’s database as either an entrepreneur (i.e., capital seeker) or a venture capitalist (i.e., capital supplier). For more VC info and links, see www.globaltechnoscan.com. Find out what firms are going public this week at cbs.marketwatch.com. IPO information is widely available. Try www.ipo.com, www.ipohome.com, and IPO Central at www.hoovers.com. Learn more about investment banks at Merrill Lynch (www.ml.com).
Chapter 17 The American Bankruptcy Institute provides extensive information (www.abiworld.org). The SEC has a good overview of the bankruptcy process in its "online publications" section: www.sec.gov. Get the latest on bankruptcy at www.bankruptcydata.com.
Chapter 18 Current information on firms announcing stock splits and dividends is available at www.e-analytics.com/splitd.htm. Chapter 19 Interested in a career in short-term finance? Visit the Treasury Management Association web site at www.treasurymanagement.com. Learn more about outsourcing accounts management at www.businessdebts.com and www.costcuttinganalysts.com. An Excel spreadsheet for calculating the cash cycle is available at www.infrastructuresupport.com. See the Finance Tools section of http://business.lycos.com for several useful templates including a cash flow budget. For more on factoring, see www.factors.com and www.factoringcentral.com. Chapter 20 For a real-world example of float management services, visit www.epaymentsystems.com. Try www.cfoasia.com for an international view on cash management. For lots of small business-related information on cash budgets and other items, visit edge.lowe.org. Global Treasury News has current info on cash management, especially on international issues. (www.gtnews.com) For a free cash budgeting spreadsheet, go to www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/tools.asp. Check out short-term rates on-line at www.bloomberg.com. Chapter 21 These companies assist businesses with working capital management: www.treasury.pncbank.com and www.eycashmanagement.com. For more on the credit process for small businesses, see www.ny.frb.org/pihome/addpub/credit.html. Visit the National Association of Credit Management at www.nacm.org. For business reports on credit visit www.creditworthy.com. Web-surfing students should peruse the Dun & Bradstreet home page—this major supplier of credit information can be found at www.dnb.com. Visit the Society for Inventory Benchmarking Analysis at www.simba.org. Chapter 22 For current LIBOR rates, see www.hsh.com. Visit SWIFT at www.swift.com. Second in importance only to the U.S. dollar is the euro. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago provides several euro-related links on their "Euro Resource Page" at www.chicagofed.org/consumerinformation. Get up-to-the-minute exchange rates at www.xe.com and www.exchangerate.com. Current and historical foreign exchange data are available at many web sites. A particularly good site is maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Go to www.chicagofed.org and click on their "Economic Research and Data" section for up-to-date exchange rate data. For international news and events, visit www.ft.com. For exchange rates and even pictures of non-U.S. currencies, see www.travlang.com/money. How are the international markets doing? Find out at cbs.marketwatch.com. Chapter 23 Check out the "Internet Resource for Derivatives" for information on derivative instruments and markets at www.numa.com. The International Financial Risk Institute (risk.ifci.ch) promotes education on risk management. Applied Derivatives Trading is a web magazine covering derivatives and risk management (www.adtrading.com). Erisk is an online publication dealing with risk management (www.erisk.com). Surf over to these home pages at www.cbot.com, www.cme.com, and www.liffe.com. All of these web sites provide a great deal of information about the services and financial products found on the respective exchanges. To get some real-world experience at very low cost, visit the fascinating futures exchange at the University of Iowa: www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem. For information on the regulation of futures contracts, go to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at www.cftc.gov. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is the world’s largest options exchange. Make a virtual visit at www.cboe.com. A good introduction to the options markets is available at www.optionscentral.com. The Derivatives ’Zine at www.margrabe.com covers risk management. Information on commodity futures and options can be found at www.futuresbasics.com. The Association of Corporate Treasurers (www.treasurers.org) has lots of information on a variety of subjects, including risk management. Chapter 24 The Options Industry Council has a web page featuring a lot of educational materials: www.888options.com. There’s a Black-Scholes calculator (and a lot more) at www.cboe.com. Another good options calculator can be found at www.numa.com. For an option-oriented web site focusing on volatilities, visit www.ivolatility.com. The options calculator at www.numa.com makes it easy to calculate ISDs. Chapter 25 For up-to-date information on happenings in the world of M&A, go to cbs.marketwatch.com, then type "merger" into its search option. What’s new in mergers and acquisitions? Visit www.advisor-alliance.com to find out. Got the urge to merge? See www.firstlist.com and www.mergernetwork.com for ideas. Try the "M & A" link at www.thedeal.com for current news. Chapter 26 Up-to-date news and articles on the leasing industry are available at www.monitordaily.com. Should you lease or buy that next car? Visit the Money section of www.bloomberg.com for a calculator to help you decide. Web sites for equipment leases include www.assetcapitallease.com. There’s an online lease versus buy calculator at (where else?): www.lease-vs-buy.com. The biggest lessor by dollar value is www.ilfc.com. |