FCL Business Information Collection:
Business Topics and Terms

Judy Donlin, Elyse Streit and Annette Weiss, Selector Librarians



Accounting Terminology Guide

The New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) General Committee on Public Relations has prepared this glossary as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information. Its usefulness far exceeds that narrow purpose, however.

Business

With over 20,000 definitions, BusinessDictionary.com covers every aspect of the business world.

Business Dictionaries

This list of links to major online business dictionaries and glossaries includes resources that define business, finance, economics, investment, personal finance, mutual fund, advertising, insurance, real estate, import and export, and derivative instrument terms and acronyms. From YourDictionary.com.

Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary

A browsable alphabetical listing of over 7,200 financial terms. Subsets of this collection are used on many financial Web sites. From a professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

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Commercial Terms and Conditions

This is a searchable database that includes the terms and conditions included in both the 1996 and 2000 editions of the "The Anthology of Commercial Terms and Conditions" published by the Federal Supply Service (FSS). The contents represent the terms and conditions found in agreements of over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies.

Dictionary of Marketing Terms

Over 4,000 marketing terms from the American Marketing Association.

Economist.com Business Encyclopedia

5,000+ international business terms, lengthy profiles of 144 business leaders (including timeline), 200+ topical guides. Free!

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Investopedia

From Forbes Media, a searchable dictionary of terms used in Active Trading, Bonds, Financial Theory, Foreign Exchange, Fundamental Analysis (Accounting), Mutual Funds, Options & Futures, Personal Finance, Real Estate & Property, Retirement Planning, Stocks, Taxes, Technical Analysis, Venture Capital and IPOs.

WashingtonPost.com: Business A to Z—Business Terms Glossary

A glossary containing more than 1,250 business terms, organized and cross-referenced for your convenience. You can search the glossary for a particular word or search the full text of the glossary to find every reference to a word or phrase, or borwsse using either a master alphabetical index or sub-indexes.
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