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Business & Commerce Resources on the Web

 

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General business gateways and sites

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Irish Business

  • Basis (Irish Government site)
    Provides key information sources for businesses in Ireland

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    Irish government department covering trade and industry in Ireland and including legislation, publications and contacts

  • Expertise Ireland
    Links to organisations and sources of research funding and initiatives in Ireland

  • Irish Management Institute
    Management training provider with links to IMI hosted conference slides, and lists of publications (note: only executive summaries of some documents freely available)

  • Irish Business and Employers Confederation
    Containing web links on areas of business including HR, Economics and Employment

  • Irish Congress of Trade Unions
    Site containing classified subject web links and links to full text publications including submissions to government and legislation

  • Irish Independent Business Page
    Online business section of the Irish Independent.

  • Irish Times Business Page
    Online business section of the Irish Times

  • Irish Times Innovation
    Online version of the Monthly Business Innovation supplement of the Irish Times

  • Enterprise Ireland
    Responsible for the development of Irish industry, Enterprise Ireland's website includes publications and case studies for all firms operating in Ireland

  • Economic and Social Research Institute
    The site of the ESRI contains links to publications, research areas and Irish economic data

  • Forfasorfás
    Responsible for the promotion of technological development and enterprise, the Forfas site contains a useful links section and publications relating to competitiveness

  • IDA Ireland
    The IDA website contains case studies, Irish vital statistics and company/industry listings

  • Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority
    Provides statistics, further links and publications, and information on the regulatory environment surrounding businesses in Ireland

  • It's Your Money
    This website gives you information on financial products and services to help you make financial decisions.

  • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
    Website outlining compliance procedures, publications, forms and regulations from the office charged with ensuring compliance with company law

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Business news sources                          

  • BBC
    Worldwide coverage of business related news stories

  • RTE's Business Page
    Up to date Irish and worldwide business related news stories.

  • RTE Radio 1: The Business
    The Business is a half-hour magazine programme looking at  personal finance, business and enterprise in Ireland. Covers news on stocks, shares, property and investment, with a special focus on new and start up enterprises.       

  • Financial Times
    The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, comment and analysis.

  • Wall Street Journal
    The online edition of one of the world's leading business publications.

  • Electric news
    A newswire service covering e-commerce, technology and investment

  • Reuters
    Select 'Business' - the newswire service covers international business stories and links to country specific stories

  • Bloomberg
    Another newswire service providing international markets and business stories, and financial data

  • News Now
    A UK news monitoring service providing breaking business stories from a variety of international (including Irish) news source.

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Accountancy links

 

General Accountancy Links

Irish Organisations

Firms in Ireland

International Organisations

Glossaries Of Accountancy Terms And Terminology

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Company Information

These free websites contain information relating to major companies [worldwide].   Extensive company information is also available from databases included in the UCD Library Electronic Resources Collection, among them Lexis Nexis [Annual reports, newspaper articles], Marketline [Analysts' reports, financial data], ABI/Proquest , InfoTrac (General Business File) [Academic articles relating to major companies], Factfinder [Trade press articles relating to Irish companies] and EBSCO Business Source Premier(an extensive collection of fulltext articles, including company information these, and other databases can be found in the list of business databases section .

 

Company Reports

You may also find annual reports on a company's website in the 'about' or 'investor relations' section

  • Northcote
    Companies reports can be located by sector, industry or alphabetically by name

  • CAROL
    Requires registration -contains company news and alphabetical listing of reports

  • Hemscott
    Requires registration - select the 'companies' button to access alphabetical listings of many companies, some Irish

  • Report Gallery
    Contains sector, industry and alphabetical listing of US companies - can also search by exchange

                   

Hard Copy Annual Reports

UCD Library maintains an extensive collection of Irish/UK company reports in printed format, check the library catalogue for holdings.  Many major companies provide online access to recent annual reports [use GOOGLE search engine]

  

Other Company Information Sources

 

  • Basis
    Business Access to State information and services Irish government service containing information on government services to all aspects of a company's operation

  • Companies Registration Office
    Provides creation and end data for Irish registered companies

  • Edgar
    Provides extensive data relating to US companies and major foreign companies operating in the United States

  • Lexis Nexis Professional
    LexisNexis Professional permanently closed on January 31, 2008. It has been replaced by NexisUK for news & business and LexisNexis Butterworths for legal resources.

     

Newspapers

Company information is also covered in the business press. Newspapers and business magazines are included in the databases, Lexis Nexis Professional and Factfinder (Irish only content) - found in the list of business databases

 

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Management Information Systems

  • MIS Web
    Website of the UCD MIS department, containing details on research activities and UCD MIS research centres, staff members and a classified links page including resources on Operations Research and Information systems

  • Association for Information Systems
    A professional organisation for academics in the field of MIS

  • IS World
    A portal for IS resources aimed at all involved in MIS research and practice, it contains research and teaching links, and details of special MIS interest groups

  • UK Academy for Information Systems
    A forum for all involved in researching and teaching MIS, the site contains a "resources" section, containing websites of interest, conference details and a short summary of some case studies

  • Management and Information Systems Research Group, University of York
    A site containing links to research including relevant bibliographies of journal articles, further links and publications

 

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