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Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary: A to Z dictionary of terms used in accounting, business, and economics.
Accounting Terminology Guide: A to Z dictionary of accounting terms.
Barkley's Comprehensive Financial Glossary: A to Z dictionary of financial terms.
BusinessDictionary.Com: Definitions for more than 20,000 business terms.
Business Plans Handbooks: An online edition of the dozen volumes of this reference work, with two dozen business plans per volume.
Calculators OnLine Center: Links to calculators of all types available on the Net.
Currency Converter: Convert currencies for 215 countries (from Bloomberg.com).
Currency Exchange Rates (Historical): Historic currency exchange rates (from GoCurrency.com).
Encyclopedia of American Industries: Online version of the two-volume 2005 encyclopedia, also available in the Reference Collection, call number HC102 .E53 2005.
Elsevier Handbooks in Economics: Online versions of the over fifty published volumes of the Handbooks in Economics series, containing nearly 700 articles, including some of the most cited in economics. Some of the subjects covered include Agricultural Economics; Computational Economics; Defense Economics; Development Economics; Economic Forecasting; Economic Growth; Econometrics; Art and Culture; Education; Economics of Finance; Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism; Environmental Economics; Experimental Economics; Game Theory; and many more.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance: Online version of this two-volume encyclopedia, 2001 edition; not available in print in the library.
Encyclopedia of Small Business: Online version of this two-volume 2002 encyclopedia, also available, in the older 1998 edition, in the Reference Collection, call number HD62.7 .H553 1998.
Financial Terms Glossary: From the Foster database S&P NetAdvantage   UW restricted
Financial Ratios Calculator: Calculate ratios based on corporate financial information.
Full Text Articles Online: Sites that allow you to identify which databases have full text articles for specific journals.
Harmonized Code Search: Search the descriptions on the Export Commodity Codes to find the code number.
Interactive Tariff Database: Search the current U.S. Tariff schedule for duties and tariff treatment of goods imported into the U.S.
InvestorWords.Com: A to Z dictionary with definitions of more than 6,000 investing terms.
NASD Glossary: A to Z glossary of terms used in the securities industry, from the National Association of Securities Dealers.
NAICS Code Search: Use this search engine to find the North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS code) for an industry. Click here for more information about this system.
Oxford Reference: Economics & Business: Use this database to access online versions of the Oxford University Press's:
Oxford Scholarship Online: Over 1,200 electronic books from Oxford University Press, in four collections:
SIC Code Search: Use this search engine to find the Standard Industrial Code (SIC code) for an industry - or to find out what an SIC code stands for.
What Is A Dollar Worth? This calculator (from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) allows you to enter a year and a dollar amount for goods or services for any year between 1913 and 2001 to determine the later value of that dollar amount.

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