The following websites provide access to reference tools and other resources relevant to business, finance, and economics.

Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Searchable dictionary of 329,000+ acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. Search results can be displayed either alphabetically or in the most popular order.

Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/
Excellent resource for information about specific U.S. and Canadian companies.

Business and Economics Resources Online
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/BusEcon/
University of Washington Libraries' gateway site to business and economic information resources on the Web.

Business Reference Sources
http://www.asindexing.org/site/refbooks.shtml#busrefs
The American Society for Indexing's list of links to online resources for small business owners.

Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/
Attempts to cover all terms and concepts from international economics, trade, and finance, with a bibliography of sources and a picture gallery of the diagrams of international economics.

IABC International Association of Business Communicators
http://www.iabc.com/index.htm
IABC is a learning community for professionals committed to improving the effectiveness of organizations through strategic communication. Includes full-text documents on business ethics, among other resources.

Investopedia.com
http://www.investopedia.com/
A rich source for investment and financial information. Includes helpful tutorials, financial calculators, and an excellent dictionary/glossary with links to related terms.

Library Spot
http://www.libraryspot.com/businessinfo.htm
A virtual library of business-related information, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, legislation, and links to library catalogs.

MortgageLoan.com Personal Financial Glossary
http://www.mortgageloan.com/finance-glossary
Definitions of over 700 mortgage and finance-related terms, as well as over 100 personal finance calculators.

New York Times Glossary of Financial and Business Terms
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.html?8ym
Over 2,500 terms with hyperlinks to related concepts.

NOLO Law for All
http://www.nolo.com/index.cfm
Full-text legal reference works, forms, documents, and information centers in many specialties.

1000 Dictionaries.com
http://www.1000dictionaries.com/business_dictionaries_1.html#finance
Links to over 100 online dictionaries and glossaries of business and finance-related terms.

Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/hotlist/
Links to a wealth of information for small business owners.

10,000 Year Perpetual Calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/
Just what it says: every date you ever wanted to know.

Thomas Register
http://www.thomasregister.com/
Online version of the most comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.

Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Quick conversion tool for all currencies.

YourDictionary.com Specialty Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html
Full-text English language dictionaries for accounting, advertising, business, economics, labor relations, marketing, and other business-related fields.

VIBES (Virtual International Business & Economic Resources)
http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm
Contains over 1,600 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information.

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