Software Packages
Accounting Firms
Accounting WWW Sites
Business WWW Sites
For this assignment you will be visiting some
interesting
World Wide Web sites related to business and accounting. The
purpose of this assignment is twofold:
Software Packages
Accounting Firms
Accounting WWW Sites
Business WWW Sites
indicates my choice in
each category.
Note: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and BAAN are all leading Accounting/Business Enterprise Software packages based on the concept of a relational database. These are very expensive software packages that large companies use.
A leading accounting package in the world for large companies -- really it's a complete business solutions package. The "Products" area has a great demo of the premiere package -- the R/3 System.
Another Leading provider of Accounting/Business Software.
Oracle - A Leading provider of Relational Database Applications.
Another leading provider of Accounting/Enterprise/Business Software Applications.
A leading package in the midrange accounting software market. Wayne's Web contains the "AICPA's Top 15 Technologies" that will affect accountants.
A leading package in the low end accounting software market. Check out their Business Internet Suite to help small companies conduct business on the web.
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Follow the button that says "Find" and then bookmark the query page. Use the query search engine to explore the following: Global best practices, Interactive tools, the history of Accounting, and Knowledge Space and other items that interest you.
Check out the tips on interviewing, and go to the "A Day in the Life" to get a taste of public accounting.
No tour would be complete without a visit to "Ask Ernie". Use the site's search page to find this great example of a CPA firm's use of technology. "Ask Ernie" allows a smaller or medium sized firm to access professional consulting advice that they could otherwise not afford.
To search for accounting firms and societies near you, click here.
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If there was a site award given for the best comeback effort given an embarrassing starting point, the AICPA homepage would win hands down. While there visit Assurance Services to get a taste of what's to come for the profession. Then go to the Vision Project to see that we accountants have the latest and greatest in glitz. When you get there click on the "Set our Preferences" link to see how you can customize your background, text, etc. It's totally glitz but its cool and it shows we are now leading instead of following. Equally impressive is the stereo sound and fantastic animations. Be sure to click the door at the bottom of the left frame on the initial page and follow the icon "Journey to the Future."
An international accounting organization providing tons of useful online information for the practicing accountant. Included are links to over 30 accounting-related listservs on the Web.
The best site to start with when trying to locate auditing resources on the Web. You will locate sites otherwise left unfound, such as the "Business Process Improvement On-Line" with its great library and "Auditors Sharing Audit Programs."
A great example of a well done organizational site. Contains an enormous amount of information including "Industry Specific Information" (for example see the Health Care link) and great white papers (e.g. on Expert Systems).
Contains the interesting "Report to the Nation on Fraud and Abuse" based on the most extensive survey of fraud incidents ever conducted.
A look at the future mechanism of CPE delivery. Did you know that as a CPA you are required to have 120 hours of CPE every three years for the rest of your professional life?
Stop at this excellent site from the people at Tax Analysts. Here you will find a history of U.S. Federal taxation since the Great Depression, tax returns from such U.S. Presidents as Roosevelt, Nixon, and Clinton, a tax issues discussion group, and more .....
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Take the tour for a GREAT example of electronic commerce--home grocery and drugstore shopping. Excellent product information, home delivery scheduling, coupon availability, and reasonable charges make this site valuable for busy professionals.
A really cool example of an awesome web page.
This award winning site is an excellent example of how to use the web to creatively enhance customer service. Under Service Info choose the link to worldwide logistics to see how a company uses the web to educate its customer about using distribution as a strategic weapon.
Research Magazine and Reuters have teamed up to bring you a comprehensive site providing in-depth investment information through the internet. Stock prices are updated every 20 minutes and S&P research reports are updated each week. An online brokerage house is also available.
This is the SEC's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System). This site contains massive amounts of data about all public companies which are now required to file electronically with the SEC.
See the "Economy at a Glance" for the most current information on Employment and Unemployment, Consumer and Producer Price Indices. The graphs showing data since 1987 are informative.
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