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 learn more about bonds. 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: www.cboe.com www.pacificex.com www.phlx.com www.kcbt.com www.liffe.com www.belfox.be To learn more about options,
visit www. e-analytics.com. For
information on options and the underlying companies, see www.optionsnewsletter.
com. 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. |