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In a class of his own
Bob Jensen		If you're an accountant and want to know the answer to anything related to accountancy, here is your man. Bob Jensen provides the most fantastic web site of any on the Web. This is no exaggeration and lucky for us that he's an accountant. US centric but Bob provides such a superlative service that this hardly matters.
Excel
Special mention		16 different pages on a wide variety of topics … is growing bit by bit
Ask Mr. Excel - Tips and Solutions for Excel		Tips, advice, consultancy services. All worth a visit.
Excel Book Keeping		Resources for bookkeepers using Excel. Need to register with Mathtools. Net to get anywhere though.
Excel Arrays and array formulas		Part of an FAQ section. Might solve a problem or two for you
Excel Specialist Spreadsheet		Some freebies but mainly selling courses … you might benefit from them.
John Lacher CPA (eesh, dig the CPA bit!)		Along with my own pivot table pages, here's another good one. Aimed specifically at accounting problems. Useful for everything, though!
The Spreadsheet Page: J Walk and Associates		Like Chip Pearson's site, John Walkenbach's site gives you advice, tips and freebies. A winner.
Pearson Software Consulting		They give away a LOT of ideas for Excellers. They're all good, too: another winner
Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel		One of the worst home pages you'll see: yellow and light green on white! It hides something marvellous, though. Well worthy of a trip to the optician!
Tushar Mehta Main Page		Look at the menu on the left of the home page to find some good stuff. I've used a couple of the ideas from here.
A Few Useful Microsoft Excel Resources		A listing, with links, to a variety of sources of help and assitance with Excel.
Accounting
Special Mention		My own financial accounting home page: masses of things to read and do.
Accounting Technology		technology and accountants
AccountingWEB		This link's the the UK based site but there is also an equally excellent US based version
AICPA		Home of America's finest! The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Brand new: on www.bized.ac.uk		Written by yours truly: a new and extensive introductory to intermediate look at many aspects of ratio analysis
Between the Sheets: on www.bized.ac.uk		A brilliant section of an excellent UK based business education site. This section has fantastic advice and some downloadable spreadsheets that do all sorts of marvellous things
British Accounting Association		limited access to not much but you might be lucky
The CFO Magazine		A free, weekly newsletter will keep you in touch with financial accounting and management developments
European Accounting Association		worth a trip over
Finance Director		Pick up lots of Finance Director level tips at The FD Centre. You need to register to get their newsletter; but it's free!
Find Articles		This is fantastic if you don't have a massive library in town. You can get full versions of a huge number of articles on all sorts of topics: just search your subejct and see what's there.
Free stuff accounting		Free study aids, help with accounting homework, help with debits and credits, accounting links, free tax
FT.com Annual Reports		Download some (UK) reports and get others by post. Great research and materials development tool. Link to US reports, too.
HM Customs & Excise		Enough said!
HM Government OnLine		The home page of the UK government's online resources. The starting point for all things public sector.
IASB: the International Accounting Standards Board		If you want to know where International Accounting Standards start … hello! The fount of all IAS knowledge!
IAS Plus Home Page		A brilliant resource for International Accounting Standards information and updates.
IFAC: The International Federation of Accountants		Very useful site for all accountants and accountancy students: lots of free resources for financial and management accounting, auditing, finance … lots!
IFAD		International Forum on Accountancy Development
Inland Revenue		The UK's Taxman is here
RAW HOMEPAGE		Excellet for teachers AND students alike. They say: The Largest Accounting Web Site In The InterNet!! I think it's losing some of its edge but it's still very good.
The Accounting Standards Board UK		They even give some things away! A good site for UK accountants looking for the latest
Understanding IAS with PriceWaterhouseCoopers		Good brief explanations: not ALL you need but a good start
AccountancyAge.com		Another accountancy site with lots of information and links to keep us up to date.
Management Accounting
Special Mention 1		My own NEW cost and management accounting home page: this will be THE place to be on the management accounting web.
Special Mention 2		My own cost and management accounting home page: this is a major, and growing, resource.
Between the Sheets: on www.bized.ac.uk		A brilliant section of an excellent UK based business education site. This section has fantastic advice and some downloadable spreadsheets that do all sorts of marvellous things
CIMA		The UK based Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Forerunners in Management Accounting … they give very little away and it's a difficult site to navigate.
Colin Drury: Management and Cost Accounting - Fifth Edition		Some good stuff: Drury's solutions to questions are good but his explanations and demonstrations are only second rate
Find Articles		This is fantastic if you don't have a massive library in town. You can get full versions of a huge number of articles on all sorts of topics: just search your subejct and see what's there.
Great Ideas for Teaching Accounting		What it says: some ideas are excellent, others need careful review!
IMA - Home		The US based Institute of Management Accountants: a huge amount better than its British counterpart.
Inventory Accounting		A US university based slide show all about inventories (stock): a basic introduction
The Kaizen Institute		Need to know all about KAIZEN? Welcome!
Henry Halstead's introduction to KANBAN		Now you know about Kaizen, how about KANBAN … here we are
Simple Monte Carlo studies on a spreadsheet		One of my pet interests and it's a good starting point. I've used Guy's ideas in my own work.
Maths and Stats
Applied Regression Analysis, Linear Models, and Related Methods by John Fox.		For intermediate learners and users: good stuff centring around statistical packages
Arithmetic and geometric means		Well worth a visit and it's the starting point of loads of maths links
Data and Regression Analysis		US data used in this extensive treatment
Descriptive Statistics Introduction		Basic and useful introduction to basic statistics
Discovering important statistical concepts using spreadsheets		It's DISCUS: Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets. Cheesy but good! British based.
Durbin-Watson Statistic		If it's non parametric: why not start with Durbin Watson … here you are!
Multiple Regression		Comprehensive and wide ranging introduction to the topic. I use this too!
National Statistics - the official UK statistics site		UK Government statistics site: this site recently got much better and much easier to use. Great for teacher and student and fantastic resource for materials development.
Macro-Economic Time Series Data		Part of the MIMAS service: in this case OECD data. Another great resource for accountants and economists alike
Question Corner: Applications of the Geometric Mean		It's taken from a question and answer section of the University of Toronto's Mathematics Network and it's a good introduction to the geometric mean. I used it!
Statistical Resources on the Web		From the University of Michigan's Document Centre: a massive amount of data for a wide range of topics ranging from Agriculture to weather.

Got any suggestions to add to this list? e-mail me with your link and if it's legal, decent and honest, I'll post it.

9 June 2003