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Interesting Links
Chapter 2
Are you interested in learning more about the history of accounting? IF so, take a tour through the "Virtual History of Accounting" orgnized by the Association of Chartered Accountants in the United States and located at http://www.acaus.org/history/index.html
For an excellent example of a corporate annual report, take a lookat 3M’s annual report found at http://www.mmm.com/profile/finance/report.html. Here you can find several recent annual reports in Adobe Acrobat and HTML formats.
If you want to read more about EVA and MVA, surf over to http://www.sternstewart.com and hear about it form the people that invented it, Stern Stewart & Co. While you are there, you may like to take a look at a video of executives describing how EVA has helped them, which can be found at http://www.sternstewart.com/evaabout/comments/shtml. To see the video, you will need Real Player, which can be downloaded for free from http://www.realplayer.com.
A website of interest concerning federal tax law is http://www.taxsites.com/federal/html. From this home page one can visit other sites that provide summaries of recent tax legislation or current information on corporate and individual tax rates.
To learn more about tax havens, check out http://www.escapeartist.com for an in-depth analysis into tax havens, including profiles and indexes of offshore banks and foreign markets.
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
A wide range of valuable financial information is available on the Internet. Here is a partial list of places you can go to get started:
http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com
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