Europa
Gateway to the European Union.

FinFacts
Irelands Business & Finance portal.

Intute
Intute: Business and Management provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.

WWW Virtual Library
The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert

Accountingnet.ie
Accounting & Business Portal

Accounting Web
Online UK accounting portal.

AuditNet
The global resource for auditors with links, tools and resources developed for the benefit of auditors

Business Research in Information & Technology
Developing leading edge thinking and practice on contemporary business, technology, and knowledge management issues to facilitate organizational and individual performance, success, and fulfillment.

CAROL Online annual reports
CAROL is an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. CAROL provides direct access to companies balance sheets, profit & loss statements, financial highlights etc.

Central Bank of Ireland
The Central Bank has responsibility for monetary policy functions, financial stability, economic analysis, currency and payment systems, investment of foreign and domestic assets and the provision of central services.

Central Statistics Office

The CPA Journal
The CPA Journal is broadly recognized as an outstanding, technical-refereed publication aimed at public practitioners, management, educators, and other accounting professionals.

Economic & Social Research Institute
Our main focus is research on economic and social change in Ireland in the new global context.

EIU.COM
The Economist Intelligence Unit provides a constant flow of analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries.

Everyone's ABC of accounting language
Listing of common accounting terms/themes.

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
The mission of the FASAB is to promulgate federal accounting standards after considering the financial and budgetary information needs of citizens, congressional oversight groups, executive agencies, and the needs of other users of federal financial information.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF is an international organization of 188 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.

European Central Bank
The ECB is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECBs main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The euro area comprises the 15 European Union countries that have introduced the euro since 1999.

Global Edge
Information on global business issues.

Government of Ireland Website
This site will help you to find government organisations or information by providing links, indices of recent publications and a search engine that searches all government sites.

Insead Knowledge
Provides an international perspective on all aspects of Business.

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development
The OECD also shares expertise and exchanges views with more than 100 other countries and economies, from Brazil, China, and Russia to the least developed countries in Africa.

Revenue Commissioners
Revenue's mission is to serve the community by fairly and efficiently collecting taxes and duties and implementing Customs controls.

Rutgers Accounting Web
US Accounting Resources

Social Science Research Network
The Accounting Research Network (ARN) is directed by Ross Watts. Watts is a Professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

U.S Securities & Exchange Commission
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

TaxWorld
Irish Tax Law website.

Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board
The Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board ("AADB") is the independent, investigative and disciplinary body for accountants and actuaries in the UK.

ACCA Ireland
Irish branch of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

American Accounting Association
The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice. Founded in 1916 as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, its present name was adopted in 1936. The Association is a voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research.

AICPA American Institute of CPAs
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the national, professional organization for all Certified Public Accountants. Its mission is to provide members with the resources, information, and leadership that enable them to provide valuable services in the highest professional manner to benefit the public as well as employers and clients.

BAFA - British Accounting & Finance Association
The British Accounting Association ( BAA) aims to: advance knowledge and understanding of education and research in all areas of accounting and finance; promote by means of conferences, discussion groups or otherwise closer relations among teachers, accounting practitioners and others who are interested in the development of accounting and finance.

Certified General Accounting Association of Canada
Founded in 1908, the CPA is a self-regulating, professional association of 68,000 students and Certified General Accountants CGAs.

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
CIMA is a leading membership body that offers a globally recognised professional management accounting qualification. Our qualification has an emphasis on accounting for business. Our reputation as a professional and regulatory body has never been stronger.

CPA (Ireland)
Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland, an independent Irish accountancy body

European Accounting Association
The European Accounting Association (EAA) aims to link together the Europe-wide community of accounting scholars and researchers, to provide a platform for the wider dissemination of European accounting research, and to foster and improve research.

Financial Accounting Standards Board - FASB
The mission of the FASB is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of financial information.

Financial Reporting Council
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is the UK's independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance.

Governmental Accounting Standards Board GASB
The mission of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting that will result in useful information for users of financial reports and guide and educate the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial reports.

IBA
The Irish Brokers Association

Chartered Accountants Ireland
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors
The CIIA is a professional association for internal auditors in the UK and Ireland

IAFA
Irish Accounting and Finance Association

ITI
Irish Taxation Institute

Insurance Institute of Ireland

International Accounting Standards Board
In March 2001, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) Foundation was formed as a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, US. The IASC Foundation is the parent entity of the International Accounting Standards Board, an independent accounting standard-setter based in London, UK

International Federation of Accountants
As the global organization for the accountancy profession, IFAC is committed to protecting the public interest by developing high quality international standards, promoting strong ethical values, encouraging quality practice, and supporting the development of all sectors of the profession around the world.

Deloitte & Touche

Ernst and Young

Crowe Horwath Charleton

KPMG

OSK

Price Waterhouse Coopers (Ireland)

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