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Faa: Office for Commercial Space Transportation
The official homepage of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, a section of the Federal Aviation Administration dedicated to commercial launches into space
Cato Institute
Cato Institute: Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating the 105th Congress
This article is about the dispute between a totally free market and one in which the government intervenes.
Free Management Library
Managementhelp: Introduction to Management
Brief introduction to the world of management. Many links are provided to specific management points.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Steps to Take to Improve Cash Flow Management
This resource begins a discussion on preparing a cash flow budget. Click the links on the page to go to additional steps in preparing this budget or click the 'Next' button at the bottom of the page. This page also includes a...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Accentuating the Positives in Business Letters
Online resource from Purdue on business and technical writing. Details how to write positively through embedded position and effective use of space.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: The Basic Business Letter
This lesson from Purdue's online writing lab details both the parts of a business letter and the various formats for one, including block, modified block, and semi-block. Great resource for getting started writing a professional letter.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing for a North American Business Audience
This lesson gives guidelines for business writing in Western (North American) culture. From Purdue University.
Other
Rulemaker Portfolio: The Most Important Financial Statement
This article, from September, 1999, proposes that analyzing cash flow is a better measure of a company's stock than analyzing net income. Examples are given from the stock exchange.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Entrepreneur in You
This website is a valuable resource in finding out more about being an entrepreneur. It contains a comprehensive lesson plan detailing what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Online: General Journal Case Study
This case study requires analyzing general journal concepts as well as recording daily transactions in a general journal. Additional Internet research activities are included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Uncollectible Accounts Case Study
This case study requires analyzing the uncollectible accounts receivable of CFS, Inc., and determining adjusting entries using both direct write-off and allowance methods. Additional Internet research activities are included.
Other
Smalltown Marketing: How to Make a Super Brochure or Mailing Piece
Presents information on the purpose of brochures, mistakes to avoid, how to write brochure copy, and how to structure brochure.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Purdue University: Tone in Business Writing
Excellent resource for those interested in professional, business, or technical writing. Gives definition, uses, and guidelines for the element of tone in a written work.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Revision in Business Writing
Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.
Digital History
Digital History: The Rise of Big Business
This resource provides information about the rise of big business in America after the Civil War. Read about the modern corporation, increased mechanization, and consumer products.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: All Female Enterprise
This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Real Origin of the Franchise
In this video lesson, Sir Harold Evans describes the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper, a beauty salon owner who invented franchising, one of the most successful business models today. [5:49]
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Carbons to Computers
Provides an excellent timeline of the history of the American office. Great pictures, easy to read, and the history is broken into eras for easy researching.
PBS
Pbs (Affluenza): What Are Advertisers Selling
What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? In this lesson plan, learners explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely lesson plan that would generate...
Other
White Paper: Developing a Strategic Plan
Offers information about strategic planning and an online worksheet to develop a final, printed plan.
The World Bank
World Bank: The Private Sector and Power Generation in China
A paper issued by the World Bank on the role of private sector enterprise in "Power development," in China. The full report is in PDF format. (Published in 2000)
Other
University of Massachusetts: Bonds Payable
Issuing bonds is one way a corporation raises capital. This site from the University of Massachusetts Lowell provides a quiz and several problems, complete with solutions, that illustrate the accounting procedures for bonds payable.
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Accounting study.com: Liabilities
This site from accountingSTUDY.com describes accounts for both current and long-term liabilities. There are numerous links to other sites about accounting on this page.