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associations/membership organizations
sources of financial and business information
international organizations
European stock exchange
academic journals publishing articles about financial analysis

Associations/Membership organizations

American Accounting Association
Voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research. The site includes information about the organization, its sections, meetings, and publications.
http://aaahq.org

British Accounting Association
British organization of accounting researchers, teachers, and practitioners.
http://www.baa.group.shef.ac.uk/

CFA Institute
CFA Institute is a global membership organization that awards the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. CFA Institute also publishes the Financial Analysts Journal. The site includes information about membership, conferences, publications etc.
http://www.cfainstitute.org

European Accounting Association
European organization of accounting researchers, teachers, and practitioners.
http://www.eaa-online.org

Sources of financial and business information

Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com

The Economist
http://www.economist.com

Eurostat
Site of the Statistical Office of the European Communities. This site is also a good source for historical European long-term government bond yields.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

Financial Times
http://www.ft.com

Google Finance
This site includes company news, interactive charts of company’s share prices and price-influencing news stories, key statistics etc.
http://finance.google.com

Motley Fool
http://www.fool.co.uk

Reuters
Site with the latest financial and business news and a wide collection of company data, such as company’s recent financial statements, company news, consensus forecasts, ownership, and officer/director details.
http://www.reuters.com

Yahoo! Finance
This site includes historical share price data (downloadable in csv format), company fundamentals, company news etc.
The European Yahoo! Finance sites are:

France: http://fr.finance.yahoo.com/
Germany : http://de.finance.yahoo.com/
Italy: http://it.finance.yahoo.com/
Spain: http://es.finance.yahoo.com/
UK: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/

International organizations

Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)
http://www.cesr-eu.org

The European Union
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
http://www.iasb.org

European Stock Exchanges

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME)
http://www.bolsasymercados.es

Borsa Italiana
http://www.borsaitaliana.it/

Deutsche Börse
http://deutsche-boerse.com/

Euronext
http://www.euronext.com

London Stock Exchange
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/

OMX Exchanges
http://www.omxgroup.com/nordicexchange/

SWX Swiss Exchange
http://www.swx.com/