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information; illustrations; links to other websites; and a list of questions 
related to that topic。 The entire syllabus and teaching resources for a 
Graduate Management Accounting Course is included on the site。 
。 The Times (thetimes100。uk): This link is to The Times newspapers 
resource centre for business studies students and teachers; containing 
teaching materials including lesson plans; worksheets; practice 
exams and mark schemes。 There is a link to some 50 case studies on UK 
businesses from Aegon to Vodafone; with the option to download an 
MP3 file of the material。 
。 Tutor2U (h。。p://tutor2u): This is a publisher of e…learning resources 
for economics; business; politics; enterprise; law; sociology and related 
subjects; including accounting; marketing; production; management 
and strategy; its materials are used by over 3;500 schools and colleges 
in the UK and in educational institutions in over 85 other countries。 
It offers a range of free and subscription…based materials; designed 
to support teachers and educate students。 While the subject ma。。er 
is aimed primarily at A Level students and undergraduates; there is 
plenty of material of interest to an MBA。 The strategy revision notes 
cover all the key tools and concepts; accounting is prehensively 
covered; including less mon areas; from absorption costing to 
window dressing。 The site also has hundreds of short multiple…choice 
quizzes on business topics such as the marketing mix; accounting ratios 
and economics。 The questions are jumbled; so each time you take a test 
the questions may be different。 
。 Value Based Management (valuebasedmanagement): 
Value Based Management is a management portal specifically 
aimed at the information needs of senior executives; providing learning 
materials explaining management methods; models and theories on 
strategy; performance; finance; valuation; change; corporate governance; 
294 Appendix 
munication; marketing; leadership and responsibility; with links 
to additional resources in the field。 Over 200 business models; from 
Ansoff to value chain; are described in sufficient detail to be able to 
apply them。 There is also a management dictionary (12manage。 
/management_dictionary。html) containing definitions of 1;500 
management terms or phrases that an MBA would be expected to 
understand。 
。 Web…enabled scientific services & applications (wessa): This 
site provides free statistics and forecasting so。。ware; including Univariate 
Box–Jenkins ARIMA modelling; forecasting; and various bootstrap 
simulation methods for the estimation of financial profit density 
functions according to the following strategies: Buy&Hold; Alexander’s 
Filterrule; truncated Koyck lag…based MACD。 Various types of time 
series analysis tools are available: (partial) auto correlation function; 
spectral analysis; variance reduction matrix; standard deviation…mean 
plot; trimmed skewness & kurtosis; suspended rootogram displays; 
percentiles; concentration; histograms; forward & backward running 
autocorrelation; ARMA parameter estimation; and much more。 Most 
MBAs will vaguely know that such techniques exist and if you have a 
statistics department in your organization; checking out this site might 
help you earn brownie points! 
。 WISE (h。。p://wise。cgu。edu): Web Interface for Statistics Education; 
funded by Claremont Graduate University; California; provides easy 
entry to internet resources that can be used in support of statistics education 
and applications。 The site includes interactive statistics tutorials 
and answers to questions as well as being a jump…off point for connecting 
to other resources for statistics on the internet。 
MBA INFORMATION RESOURCE 
CENTRE 
MBAs are expected to know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING! Not 
an easy task; but with the sources below it should be possible to keep 
informed about most key business issues。 For example; you can find out in 
which country it takes the longest to set up a new business (Sierra Leone 
– 1;075 days); where investors are best protected (New Zealand) or where it 
is hardest to fire employees (Venezuela)。 The fastest…growing economy; the 
best for quality of life; how much pay you should ask for if you are offered 
a job in the Kyrgyz Republic and how many panies make knitwear in 
Spain and how profitable they are; are all questions that can be answered in 
a few mouse clicks; and knowing the answers is what makes an MBA really 
stand out from the crowd:
Appendix 295 
。 Applegate (applegate。uk) has information on 237;165 panies 
cross…referenced to 57;089 products in the UK and Ireland。 It has a 
neat facility that allows you to search out the top businesses and people 
in any industry。 
。 Blog Directories: The information on blogs is more straw in the wind 
than fact。 Globe of Blogs (globeo。。logs); launched in 2002; 
claims to be the first prehensive world weblog directory。 It links up 
to over 58;100 blogs; searchable by country; topic and about any other 
criteria you care to name。 Google (h。。p://blogsearch。google) is also 
a search engine to the world’s blogs。 
。 The British Library Business Information Service (bl。uk/services/ 
information/business。html) holds one of the most prehensive 
collections of business information in the UK。 
。 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook (cia。gov/ 
cia/publications/factbook): This link will take you straight to the latest 
edition of the Factbook。 The CIA keeps the Factbook up to date on a 
regular basis throughout the year; so you can be reasonably confident 
of having the most current information to hand。 From the Factbook you 
are offered a pull…down bar in the top le。。 of the screen; which allows 
you to select anyone of the 233 countries or regions。 For each country 
there is around half a dozen pages of A4 of basic economic; political 
and demographic information on each country; as well as information 
on political disputes that may cause problems in the future。 
。 Chambers of merce (chamberonline。uk 》 International 
Trade 》 International Chambers) run import/export clubs; international 
trade contacts and provide market research and online intelligence 
through a 150…country local network of chambers。 Their Link2Exports 
(link2exports。uk) website provides specific information on 
export markets by industry sector by country。 
。 panies House (wwwpanieshouse。gov。uk) is the official repository 
of all pany information in the UK。 Its WebCHeck service 
offers a free…of…charge searchable pany Names and Address Index 
covering 2 million panies either by name or unique pany 
registration number。 
。 Corporate Information (corporateinformation 》 TOOLS 》 
Research Links) is a business information site covering the main world 
economies; offering plenty of free information。 This link takes you to 
sources of business information in over 100 countries。 
。 Doing Business (doingbusiness): This is the World Bank’s 
database that provides objective measures of business regulations 
across 178 countries。 You can find out everything; from the rules on 
opening and closing a business to tax rates; employment laws; investor 
protection; enforcing contracts and much more。 There is a tool for 
paring countries to rank them by the criteria you consider most 
important。
296 Appendix 
。 Economics Network (economicsnetwork。ac。uk) is a heavyduty 
economics website supported by some 30 universities and business 
schools in the UK; providing links to free data (mainly macroeconomic) 
on the UK and international economies at this link ( 
economicsnetwork。ac。uk/links/data_free。htm)。 
。 FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) is a powerful database that 
contains information on 3。4 million panies in the UK and Ireland。 
You can pare each pany with detailed financials with its peer 
group based on its activity codes; and the so。。ware lets you search for 
panies that ply with your own criteria; bining as many 
conditions as you like。 FAME is available in business libraries and on 
CD from the publishers; who also offer free trial (bvdep/en/ 
panyInformationHome。html 》 pany data – national 》 FAME)。 
。 Free pany Reports & Accounts (fcreports) is an online 
service offering free instant downloads of financial reports from listed 
panies in the UK。 Annual reports; balance sheets; profit & loss 
statements and interim reports are available from one of the largest 
databases of listed panies in the UK。 
。 Global petitiveness Report (weforum/en/initiatives/gcp/ 
index。htm): Produced by the World Economic Forum and first published 
in 1979; it covers 131 major and emerging economies; providing an 
annual measure of a nation’s economic environment and its ability to 
achieve sustained growth。 
。 Google News (google); which you can tap into by selecting 
‘News’ on the horizontal menu at the top of the page under the Google 
banner。 Here you will find links to any newspaper article anywhere in 
the world covering a particular topic。 
。 Google Trends (google。uk》Labs》Google Trends) provides a 
snapshot on what the world is most interested in at any one moment。 
For example; if you are trying to find out if consumers really care about 
green issues (useful to know when seeing how to pitch a new product); 
entering that into the search pane produces a graph showing how 
interest measured by the number of searches is growing (or contracting) 
since January 2004 when they started collecting the data。 
。 Human Development Index (undp): HDI is published annually 
by the UN and ranks nations according to a posite index that 
measures 33 aspects of a country’s average achievements in three basic 
aspects of human development: longevity; knowledge; and a decent 
standard of living。 From the main menu choose ‘Human Development 
Statistics’ from the menu on the le。。 of the page。 
。 The Internet Public Library (ipl) is run by a consortium of 
US universities whose aim is to provide internet users help with finding 
information online。 There are extensive sections on business; puters; 
education; leisure and health。
Appendix 297 
。 Kelly’s (kellysearch。uk) lists information on 200;000 product 
and service categories across 200 countries。 Business contact details; 
basic product and service details and online catalogues are provided。 
。 Keynote (keynote。uk) operates in 18 countries; providing 
business ratios and trends for 140 industry sectors; giving enough 
information to assess accurately the financial health of each industry 
sector。 Using this service you can find out how profitable a business 
sector is and how successful the main panies operating in each 
sector are。 Executive summaries are free; but expect to pay between 
£250 and £500 for most reports。 
。 Lexis…Nexis (lexis…nexis) has literally dozens of databases 
covering every sector you can think of; but most useful for entrepreneurs 
researching petitors is pany Analyzer; which creates prehensive 
pany reports drawn from 36 separate sources; with up to 
250 documents per source。 So; when you get tired of scouring different 
databases to find out all there is to know about a petitor; customer 
or supplier; you could consider using pany Analyzer 

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