Business Information

• Small Business Administration

• Business Affairs at the State Department Explore this site if you are interested in doing business overseas

• U.S. Business Advisor "The one-stop electronic link to government for business." Includes how-to pages, answers to common questions, news, and a search page. Find out here how to do business with the federal government, how to get a passport, how to address your mail properly, and much more

• BEA Home Page for "the nation's economic accountant, preparing estimates that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy"

• BEA Catalog of Products. Explains their site, their mission, and their products

• Regional Data

• Survey of Current Business

• Employment Characteristics of Families Data gathered from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (LL 2.118/2:)

• Kansas City, Region VII and VIII data Includes Consumer Price Index, Employment and Unemployment, and Compensation and Working Conditions

• Producer Price Index News Releases and Data (L 2.61/10:)

• Productivity and Costs Includes quarterly productivity data in the business and nonfarm business sectors and in manufacturing, and nonfinancial corporations. (L 2.119:)

• Real Earnings Includes data for real average weekly earnings collected from payroll reports of private nonfarm establishments. (L 2.115:)

• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers Quarterly data (L 2.126:)

• United States Patent and Trademark Office Contains complete information regarding current U.S. patents and trademarks.

• FedBizzOpps Provides information on opportunities to do business with the federal government. Replaced Commerce Business Daily.

• EDGAR Database of corporate information collected by the Securities Exchange Commission

• International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb--Tariff and trade data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. See the FAQ for assistance with using the database

• International Trade Administration Several data collections available here

• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS):

• 2002 NAICS Codes

• Correspondence Tables showing the relationship between NAICS and SIC

• An unofficial clearinghouse concerning NAICS maintained by Jennifer Boettcher, Business Reference Librarian, Georgetown University

• STAT-USA a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. Ask at Reference Desk for user ID and password

Federal Reserve

• Fed in Print An online catalog of research publications from all of the Federal Reserve Banks


• The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Main site for the Federal Reserve


• Federal Reserve Economic Education Education materials related to economics


• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank serving the 10th district


• Beige Book Current economic condtions for every federal reserve district


• FRED Contains over 3,000 economic time series, which include regional data, down to the county and MSA level


• ALFRED Contains economic data for specific dates in history


• FRASER Provides access to digitized economic documents from the federal government and the Federal Reserve System

• International Trade Agreements including NAFTA and other trade issues

• The following pages contain links to online business resources. They are produced by Cheryl Riley, bibliographer for Business.
  • Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Management

 

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