SMART STOPS ON THE WEB.ACCOUNTING SITES A Site for CPAs www.computercpa.com The Accountant's Home Page offers an extensive list of links to accounting organizations (including all state society home pages), publications, resources and software. It also includes a section to post meeting and seminar notices and classified ads. A URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. of Fame www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/ acctmis/hof/hall.html The Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. lists all inductees from its inception in 1950 to the present in alphabetical and chronological order. Listings include a biography of each inductee and an explanation of his or her achievements in the accounting field. For Minority Accountants www.nabainc.org The National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. (NABA NABA North American Butterfly Association NABA National Association of Black Accountants NABA National Adult Baseball Association NABA North American Bullriding Association NABA North American Broadcasters Association NABA Namibian Biotechnology Alliance )--established in 1969--and the Center for the Advancement of Minority Accountants (CAMA (Central Automatic Message Accounting) See AMA. )--established in 1989--are both located at this site. NABA provides a brief history of its origins as well as information about pertinent conferences and publications. CAMA provides information on its symposium, its scholarship program, student conferences and CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment . Teaching the Teachers www.swcollege.com/vircomm/gita/ gita.html Great Ideas for Teaching Accountants gives accounting educators tips on classroom management, teaching general accounting principles and management accounting ideas. Information on liabilities, present value calculations and statement preparation and analysis is also included. GOVERNMENT SITES For the Consumer www.ftc.gov The Federal Trade Commission's site offers sections on consumer protection, economic issues and business guidance, as well as contact information and links to regional offices and allied bureaus such as the Bureau of Consumer Protection and the Bureau of Economics. The Law of the Land www.web.law.com/resources/ usgov.html This site features an extensive list of links to all U.S. government departments, congressional resources and U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The first series of links takes users to the text that started it all--the Declaration of Independence--and to other historical documents, as well as the U.S. Constitution. Also included are links to the National Archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued and the Library of Congress. For the Politically Minded www.politics.com This site, a new addition to the Web, plans to be the "medium for all forms of political interest and activity--national, international, organized and not so organized." Included on this site are political news items from the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Reuters and various regional papers and information on candidates and federal election polls. The site has a search engine that tracks, by name and amount, any U.S. resident who has contributed money to campaign committees. More Government Links www.bara.com/info/govlinks/ usfederal.html This site is another that features links to U.S. government agencies; however, it includes more regional ones, such as local Social Security offices. A section called Quasi-Official provides links to national museums, galleries and zoos. SEARCH SITES Give This Site the Business www.businessnation.com If you want to search the Web for only specific business topics, you'll want to bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. this URL. The site contains brief descriptions of and links to industry-specific business sites from accounting to venture capital. Pick a category, and the site gives you a list of specific sub-categories to choose from. Also included is a search engine for local business resources. More Business Sites to Search www.cob.sfasu.edu/sites.html This site, which is provided by the College of Business at Stephen E Austin State University, links the user to useful information about accounting, international business, computer science, economics and finance and marketing. Invest Some Time Searching www.nvst.com Quick and free registration on this site will supply users with abundant investment, accounting and educational information. Sections for the entrepreneur, adviser and investor are only part of what's available. The site also has links to many accounting associations and societies. Search for E-Mail Addresses www.iaf.net The Internet Address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. Finder requires free registration before users can access its huge database of Internet addresses. Enter someone's last name, and the site brings up his or her e-mail address and other contact information. Or users can put in a person's e-mail address first and then search the available contact information. GENERAL INTEREST SITES A Source for ElderCare eld·er·care n. Social and medical programs and facilities intended for the care and maintenance of the aged. www.elderweb.com On her Web site, Karen Stevenson Brown, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. (see "A Practical Site Reaps Marketing Rewards,"JofA, Jan. 97, page 69), provides information for professionals and family members in need of ElderCare resources. The site offers links to legal, financial and medical information as well as to organizations categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat by region and specific ElderCare topics such as housing, hospices and insurance concerns. Help for Small Businesses www.helpbizowners.com Free registration will allow small business owners access to information on buying and selling a business, finance, franchising, marketing and management. A forum for networking and an online help desk are also available. A Human Resource Site www.hr-esource.com This site offers links and news about human resource topics in real time so the information is always current. Of particular interest are issues such as age bias, sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. and liability. Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Online www.dowjones.wsj.com The Dow Jones site is customizable and includes a search engine to retrieve news and research for twenty-nine industries. It also includes links to information about careers and starting a business. |
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