PART 1 WEBSITES Chapter 1 describes the role of the financial manager. More information on careers and salaries in finance can be found at:
www.careers-in-finance.com
www.careers.wsj.com
www.wageweb.com Material on corporate governance is available on:
www.corpgov.net
www.thecorporatelibrary.com Chapters 2 and 3 show how to value future cash flows. Many websites that are concerned with personal finance provide discussions of the time value of money and calculators. Try, for example:
www.bankrate.com
www.money.cnn.com
www.quicken.com
www.smartmoney.com Chapters 4 & 5 explain how bonds and stocks are valued. Helpful material and data on bond markets are available on:
www.finpipe.com (good explanations of bond markets from a Canadian site perspective)
www.investinginbonds.com (the Bond Market Association's website contains useful bond data and links to related sites)
www.investorguide.com (good explanations of bond and equity markets)
http://finance.yahoo.com
http://money.cnn.com/markets/bondcenter (market commentary)
www.federalreserve.gov (the research section contains historical data on interest rates)
www.stls.frb.org (the site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis )
www.ustreas.gov (website of the U.S. Treasury includes current bond prices and yields) Helpful material on bond valuation can be found at:
www.fintools.com (has a somewhat more advanced bond calculator)
www.loanpricing.com (includes data on bond issuance volumes) Most major stock exchanges have good websites. See, for example:
www.nyse.com ( New York Stock Exchange)
www.nasdaq.com (NASDAQ)
www.londonstockexchange.com ( London Stock Exchange)
www.tse.or.jp ( Tokyo Stock Exchange)
www.123world.com/stockexchanges (links to national exchanges)
www.rba.co.uk (links to national exchanges)
www.fibv.com (the World Federation of Stock Exchanges publishes very useful comparative statistics) Data on stock market indexes can be found on:
www.djindexes.com (Dow Jones indexes)
www.spglobal.com (Standard & Poor's indexes)
www.wilshire.com (return data for Wilshire set of indexes)
www.msci.com (return data for MSCI set of indexes)
www.barra.com (market indexes with information on dividend yields, P/Es, etc.) Here is a selection of sites with market commentary and data on individual firms and stocks. We find Yahoo! Finance particularly useful:
http://finance.yahoo.com
www.bloomberg.com
http://hoovers.com
www.investor.reuters.com
www.cbs.marketwatch.com
http://money.cnn.com
http://moneycentral.msn.com (links to msn sites for several overseas markets)
www.euroland.com (useful source of quotes for European markets)
www.valueline.com (includes free sample analyses and long-term earnings forecasts for Dow Jones stocks) Two useful sites for estimating stock values with the dividend discount model are:
www.dividenddiscountmodel.com
www.valuepro.net PART 2 WEBSITES Chapter 8 provides an overview of long-term returns on stocks and bonds. You can find long-term securities' price data on:
www.globalfindata.com
www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller (Robert Shiller's home page) In Chapter 9 we explain why risk can be measured by "beta." Equity betas for individual stocks can be found on Yahoo (or you can download the stock prices from Yahoo and calculate your own measures):
http://finance.yahoo.com Chapter 9 looks at Campbell Harvey's home page includes software to calculate efficient frontiers for portfolios of two or three assets:
www.duke.edu/~charvey.com Data on the Fama-French factors are published on Ken French's website:
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french PART 3 WEBSITES Software for project analysis (Chapter 11) is available on:
www.jaxworks.com (simple illustration of accounting breakeven analysis)
www.decisioneering.com (demo of Crystal Ball TM simulation software) The Corporate Library is a very useful source of information on executive compensation. Business Week and Forbes produce regular reports on remuneration, and the website of Towers Perrin, the human resource consultancy, provides some extracts fromits database:
www.thecorporatelibrary.com
www.towers.com
www.businessweek.com
www.forbes.com Chapter 32 describes how performance may be measured by EVA. Stern Stewart's site provides articles and data on EVA:
www.sternstewart.com PART 4 WEBSITES Chapter 15 provides an overview of corporate financing. Useful sources of data on financing for U.S. corporations include:
www.census.gov/csd/qfr (balance sheet and income data)
www.federalreserve.gov/releases (flow of funds accounts; includes data on asset holdings by class of investor) Chapter 16 discusses venture capital financing. Relevant sites include:
www.redherring.com
www.nvca.org (website of the National Venture Capital Association)
www.evca.com (website of the European Venture Capital Association)
www.asianfn.com (website of the Asian Venture Capital Journal)
www.pwcmoneytree.com (includes results of quarterly survey of venture capital activity)
www.v1.com (includes statistics on venture capital activity)
www.vnpartners.com/primer.htm (a useful primer on venture capital) Sites on initial public offerings include:
www.hoovers.com
http://marketwatch.com
www.redherring.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/ipo
http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/ritter (Jay Ritter's home page is a mine of data on the performance of IPOs) Nasdaq provides a useful explanation of how to go public together with some data on new listings:
www.nasdaq.com Underwriter league tables are published on:
www.thomson.com/solutions/financial There are several routes for accessing the SEC's huge database of prospectuses and registration statements:
www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com
www.edgar-online.com
www.freeedgar.com PART 5 WEBSITES Dividend policy and leverage decisions may be influenced by tax rates. Here are some sites with information on tax rates:
www.taxsites.com (includes links to sites providing tax rates for a variety of countries)
http://finance.yahoo.com (information on personal tax rates)
www.quicken.com (information on personal tax rates) You can get information on recent dividend announcements on:
www.earnings.com/highlight.asp?client=cb
http://aol.ccbn.com
www.ex-dividend.com
www.dripcentral.com(dividend reinvestment plans)
For information on the capital structure of individual firms as well as industries:
http://finance.yahoo.com ValuePro provides software and data for estimating WACCs:
www.valuepro.net PART 6 WEBSITES The options exchanges contain explanations of options markets and lots of data:
www.cboe.com
www.ise.com Other useful sources of options data:
http://finance.yahoo.com
www.pcquote.com Campbell Harvey's home page contains demonstrations of how option values are affected by changing volatility, etc.:
www.duke.edu/~charvey/vega.htm There are a number of good options sites, many of which provide data and calculators for Black-Scholes values and implied standard deviations:
www.cfo.com
www.fintools.net/options/opcalc.html
www.numa.com
www.optionscentral.com
www.pcquote.com
www.pmpublishing.com (includes historical implied volatilities)
www.schaffersresearch.com The following site is concerned with the real options discussed in Chapter 23:
www.puc-rio.br/marco.ind
www.decisioneering.com (site also includes attractive software for Black-Scholes and binomial calculations) PART 7 WEBSITES For some nice illustrations of changes in the term structure over time see:
www.smartmoney.com
www.stockcharts.com/charts/yieldcurve.html Chapters 24 and 25 focus on risky corporate bonds. The websites of the rating agencies provide lots of information on default risk and corporate bond yields:
www.moodys.com
www.standardandpoors.com
www.fitchibca.com
www.bondsonline.com (mainly a subscription service but includes data on bond spreads) For material on the estimation of default probabilities, see:
www.mkmv.com (the website of Moody's KMV)
www.riskmetrics.com (includes a detailed description of Creditmetrics risk analysis) A site that focuses on project finance:
www.hbs.edu/projfinportal (maintained by Benjamin Esty with excellent links including links to specific large projects) The following sites contain material on leasing, which is covered in Chapter 26:
www.elfaonline.com (website of the Equipment Leasing Association)
www.chooseleasing.org PART 8 WEBSITES Chapter 27 discusses futures markets. The major futures exchanges have useful sites that provide data and explain how futures markets work:
www.cbot.com (Chicago Board of Trade)
www.cme.com (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)
www.nymex.com (New York Mercantile Exchange)
www.lme.com (London Metal Exchange)
www.eurexchange.com (Eurex)
www.euronext.com (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) The site for the Bank for International Settlements includes periodic surveys of derivative and currency markets:
www.bis.org Commodity and futures quotes and comment are available on:
www.commoditytrader.net ISDA is the trade association for swap dealers:
www.isda.org There are numerous sites with spot currency rates. They include official sites and more user friendly commercial ones:
www.federalreserve.gov
www.stls.frb.org
www.ny.frb.org (the New York Fed's website also includes a good description of the foreign exchange market)
www.oecd.org (the OECD's website also includes "effective" or "real" exchange rates)
www.bankofengland.co.uk (includes "effective" or "real" exchange rates and, for sterling only, forward exchange rates)
www.ecb.int (the website of the European Central Bank includes nominal and "effective" or "real" exchange rates for the euro)
www.oanda.com
www.x-rates.com
www.economist.com/markets/currency/map.cfm (map of the world allowing you to find cross-rates between two countries and change in rate)
www.globalfindata.com (this marvelous site includes some very long-term exchange rate data) The OECD website is a good source of short- and long-term interest rates by country:
www.oecd.org The following sites provide useful financial information for a variety of countries:
www.corporateinformation.com (company data and links to finance-related sites for each country)
www.emgmkts.com (data and commentary on emerging markets)
www.securities.com (news on emerging markets) For sample rankings of countries by political risk see:
www.prsgroup.com PART 9 WEBSITES For an introductory guide to understanding financial statements see:
www.ibm.com/investor/financials/statements.phtml
For financial ratios see:
www.jaxworks.com (simple illustrations of the calculation and interpretation of some common financial ratios)
edgarscan.pwcglobal.com (a very nice site that calculates company financial ratios. Use the Benchmarking Assistant to compare ratios across years and companies.)
For easy access to annual reports see:
www.reportgallery.com
www.prars.com (to order hard copies of annual reports)
Downloadable software for short- and long-term financial planning is available on:
www.decisioneering.com
www.jaxworks.com (has a number of simple spreadsheets for financial planning)
www.toolkit.cch.com (another site with simple spreadsheets for financial planning)
The Web site of the Bank of International Settlements and the central banks provide material on payment systems:
www.bis.org
www.federalreserve.gov
www.ecb.int (for material on the European Central Bank's "Target" payments system)
The Web sites of most major banks provide information on cash management services. See, for example:
www.chase.com
www.bankofamerica.com
Other sites dealing with cash management include:
www.directpayment.org
www.nacha.org (material on electronic payments)
www.phoenixhecht.com (a comprehensive Web site on cash management with useful links)
GE's Web site contains information on sources and costs of short-term finance:
www.gecfosolutions.com
Central bank Web sites, such as those for The Federal Reserve and regional Feds, are generally good sources of reference for short-term interest rates.
www.federalreserve.gov (also contains results of the quarterly survey of the terms of business lending by banks)
www.ny.frb.org
www.stls.frb.org
www.oecd.org (the OECD Web site contains interest rate series for different countries)
Dun and Bradstreet and the three main credit-reporting agencies have useful Web sites:
www.dnb.com (examples of Dun and Bradstreet credit reports, articles on credit management, and an introductory guide to understanding financial statements)
www.equifax.com
www.experian.com
www.transunion.com
Fair Isaac Corporation is the leading provider of credit scoring for consumers. See:
www.fairisaac.com
www.myfico.com
finance.yahoo.com (Yahoo's credit analyzer allows you to estimate your personal credit rating)
Some other sources concerned with credit management:
www.creditworthy.com
www.nacm.org (includes links to sites on credit-related issues) PART 10 WEBSITES Most websites that provide market commentary (see list at start of Part One) also contain material on recent mergers. Other sites concerned with mergers include:
www.mergernetwork.com (information on businesses for sale)
www.mergerstat.com (some data on merger activity) For material on bankruptcy see:
www.abiworld.org (website of the American Bankruptcy Institute)
www.bankrupt.com
www.bankruptcydata.com (largely a subscription site)
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/11 (the bankruptcy code)
www.uscourts.gov/library/bankbasic.pdf (a useful guide to the bankruptcy process) | 