Business Terminology and Glossaries
Market Quotes and Investing
Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Style Guides

Business Terminology & Glossaries

• Business Dictionary.com Over 20,000 definitions to browse by subject or search by word.
• Bullfighter A free software download that cuts out corporate jargon from any document you create.
  
• Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
  
• Insurance Glossary
  
• InvestorWords.com
  
• The Washingtonpost.com Business Glossary

Market Quotes & Investing

GENERAL:


• Investment Week
  
• Stock Maven

  CHARTS:
  

• BigCharts
  
• SmartMoney's Map of the Market
  
• Yahoo! Finance

  FINANCIAL CALCULATORS:
  

• Hugh's Mortgage and Financial Calculators

  INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS (IPOs):
  

• IPO Express

  INVESTING PRIMERS:
  

• CBS Market Watch Investing: Getting Started
  
• Investopedia
  
• TheStreet.com Investing Basics
  
• Vanguard University
  
• Zacks: Investing 101

  MUTUAL FUNDS:
  

• Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive
  

  PERSONAL INVESTING
  

• American Association of Individual Investors
  
• Quicken.com
  

  PUBLIC CORPORATE FILINGS:
  

• EDGAR Database of Corporate Information, provided by the
• US Securities and Exchange Commission
  

  SECURITIES EXCHANGES:
  

• American Stock Exchange
  
• Chicago Board of Options
  
• Chicago Board of Trade
  
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  
• NASDAQ
  
• NYSE
  
• Stock Markets--US (Louisiana State University)
  
• Stock Markets--International (Louisiana State University)
  

  STATISTICS:
  

• B&E DataLinks Finance Links A collection of financial statistics. Sponsored by the Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association
  
• Bloomberg
  
• Holt's Market Reports
  
• Yahoo! Finance

  VENTURE CAPITAL:
  

• PriceWaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey

Small Business & Entrepreneurship

GENERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION:


• AllBusiness.com
  
• CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Small business tools, resources and advice
  
• Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education
  
• Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business compiled by the Library of Congress
  
• Entrepreneur.com
  
• Franchise Gator
  
• Idea Cafe: Small Business Online
  
• Michigan Electronic Library collection of small business links
  
• Office.com
  
• Small Business Administration

  Business Plans

• BPlans.com a source for sample business plans, business plan software, and start up cost calculations
  
• How to Write a Business Plan published by the US Small Business Administration

  Counseling Services

• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)

  Financing

• BusinessFinance.com
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey Quarterly study of equity investments by the venture capital community in emerging US private companies
  
• SBA: Financing Your Own Business

  Franchises

• BISON: The Franchise Network
  
• Franchise Direct

  Small Business Development Centers

• SBDCNet featuring extensive links covering all aspects of small business, plus a national directory of SBDCs
  
• Michigan Small Business Development Center

  Ross School of Business Resources

• The Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies

Style Guides

• American Heritage Book of English Usage
  
• Citation Guide is an excellent resource on how to avoid plagarism from the University of Maryland
  
• Citing Electronic Sources
  
• EasyBib.com free web-based bibliographic software
  
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (1918 ed.)
  
• UM Gayle Morris Sweetland Writing Center (formerly the UM English Composition Board)
  
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format
  
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format