Intermediate Accounting: Subtitle Test, 2/e

J David Spiceland, University of Memphis
James F Sepe, Santa Clara University
Lawrence A Tomassini, Ohio State University

Accounting and Financial Info

Sources of Accounting and Financial Information
EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar) The E lectronic D ata G athering, A nalysis and R etrieval system. All publicly traded domestic companies use EDGAR to make the majority of their filings. Form 10-K or 10-KSB, which include the annual report, is required to be filed on EDGAR. The SEC makes this information available on the Internet.

Better Yet!
FreeEDGAR (http://www.freeedgar.com/) FreeEDGAR is an online service offering free access to EDGAR files with the additional ability find and extract specific financial news and information. You also can pull data directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Or!
EdgarScan (http://edgarscan.tc.pw.com/) EdgarScan from PricewaterhouseCoopers pulls filings from the SEC's servers and parses them automatically to find key financial tables and normalize financials to a common format that is comparable across companies. Go directly to specific sections of the filing, including the financial statements, footnotes, extracted financial data and computed ratios. A "Benchmarking Assistant" performs company comparisons.

Research Tools
Wall Street Research Net (http://wsrn.com/home/companyResearch.html)



MSN Stock Research (http://investor.msn.com/research/welcome.asp?Symbol=GPS)



Hoovers Online (http://www.hoovers.com/)



Bloomberg Business (http://www.bloomberg.com/)

ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS
Accounting Resources on the Internet (http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/) A comprehensive, well-organized set of links to a variety of accounting resources.



News for CPAS (http://www.aicpa.org/index.htm)



Monthly Financial Reporting Releases from PricewaterhouseCoopers (http://www.clnewsnet.com/bean/reportingframe.html) Nice summaries of recent actions by the FASB, SEC, EITF, etc.



American Accounting Association (http://raw.rutgers.edu/raw/aaa/)



FASB (http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/fasb/index.html)



AICPA Special Committee on Financial Reporting (http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aicpa/index.htm)

TAX FORMS All the tax forms can be dowloaded, printed, and used.
IRS Tax Forms (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/forms.html)

THE MARKETS
Stock Price Indexes (http://www.pathfinder.com/money/all/)



*ETRADE** (http://www.etrade.com/)



StockMaster (http://www.stockmaster.com/sm/mf/F/FEMKX.html)



Quicken.com (http://www.quicken.com/)



PC Quote (http://www.pcquote.com/)



U.S. Treasury Bill Futures (http://www.cme.com/market/quote/.Small/tb.html)



Chicago Mercantile Exchange (http://www.cme.com/)

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