Accounting and Financial Management
Learn about how to manage your business finances and understand what the numbers really mean.
Resources online
Best databases
Best web links
- AICPA's Financial Management Center
- Business Services: Publications and Forms , Illinois Secretary of State
- Illinois Department of Revenue
- Special Publications — Accounting and Financial Management
Resources at the library
Books to check out
- Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean (Nonfiction/658.1511/Ber)
- Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business (Nonfiction/657.2/Pin)
- Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers (Nonfiction/658.1511/Dro)
- Financial and Business Statements (Nonfiction/657.3/Fri)
Fast facts from our info pros
Compound Interest
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/compound_interest.html)Find the generalized equation for compound interest.
Financial Calculators
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/financial_calculator.html)Discover a few online sources for interest equations and financial calculators.
Inflation Calculators
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/inflation_calculator.html)Find websites that provide inflation calculators.
Inflation - Historical
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/inflation_history.html)Find websites that provide historical inflation data for as early as 1914.
Inflation Rates
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/inflation.html)The US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides the Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program that produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Purchasing Power of a Dollar
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/power_dollar.html)Find information to answer questions of comparative value including topics such as purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
(http://champaign.org/financial_management/consumer_price_index.html)Consumer Price Index measures the average price changes of goods and services over time.
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