Financial Information Resources for SPECIAL LIBRARIANS

Information Outlook, April, 2000 by Di Su

Departments - Newswire (full text), News Archive (full text 1996-), Wall Street Window, Web Awards, Web Links, Practical Accountant (citation only), Special Reports, Industry Leaders, Accountant's Guide to Internet, People on the Move, Career Center, CPE Center, and Calendar.

Niche Sites - Financial Planning Center, Tax Center, Technology Consulting, and Y2K.

Exhibit Halls - Accountant's Buyer's Guide, Top 100 Products, 1040 Tax Software, Accounting Software - High End, Accounting Software - Small Business, CD-ROM Tax Research, Client Write-Up, Continuing Education, Financial Planning, Fixed Assets, Forms Services Software, Internet Tax, Research, Malpractice Insurance, Payroll Software, and Practice Management.

Discussions - Accounting & Auditing, Financial Planning, Tax, Technology, and Your Practice.

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DIRECTORIES & RESOURCES

Web sources are being added to the Internet constantly. If you can't find something you want today, you may find it tomorrow. The following sites could serve as portals for accounting profession.

CPANet

http://www.cpanet.com

Also known as cpalinks.com, this site serves as the web site resource and online community for accounting professionals. Among many useful links are Accounting (428), Assurance (70), Audit (78), Consulting (76), Finance (310), Financial Planning (63), and Taxation & Law (263). The figures in parenthesis are the numbers of related web sites that were included by the site at the time of this writing. In addition to a site search engine, it provides direct access to the following search engine finance subsites: 100hot, AltaVista, Cnet, Excite, FinanceWise, Infoseek, LookSmart, HotBot, Lycos, Lycos Stock, Snap!, WebCrawler, and Yahoo!

Rutgers Accounting Web

http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/

Maintained by Rutgers Accounting Research Center of Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW) is one of the largest accounting sites in the Internet. Besides AAA, FASB, and GASB mentioned earlier, other accounting organizations on the RAW include Association of Government Accountants (AGA), Institute of Internal Auditors, Inc. (IIA), Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA).

The site offers research information, directory links to international accounting network sites. its features include:

* Accounting Resources on the Internet

* Internet Center

* Major Courses

* Sources of Information

* Accountant's Corner & Accountants on Call

A site search engine is provided. Sometimes the traffic may be heavy due to the popularity of the site, you may want to use one of the mirror sites for faster speed. RAW's mirrors are available in Hawaii, UK, Australia, Finland, Japan, Spain, and Singapore.

Accounting Professional's Resource Center

http://www.kentis.com/index.html

Established in 1995 by Kent Information Services, Inc. in Ohio, the center provides a comprehensive and well-organized directory, "Site Seeker", for accounting professionals and financial executives on the web. You can search accounting firms by an alphabetic listing, or by state, or by country. Kent Information Services, Inc., specializes in publications that help accounting, auditing, government, and tax professionals in public practice and industry use technology, especially the Internet, in their work. Its publications include: