Bala G. Dharan
J. Howard Creekmore Professor of Accounting, Rice University
 
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My Favorite Information Sources

General financial news: Briefing.com, CNN Money, RealMoney.com, Marketwatch, New York Times, MSNBC, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and Business Week.

Company news, corporate finance and accounting stories and developments: MSN Moneycentral Investor, Reuters Investor, Yahoo Finance, CFODirect and CFO.com.

Accounting, finance and economics blogs: ArgMax, Brad Delong, FinanceProfessor.com, Financial Accounting Blog, The Big Picture, TaxProf, Infectious Greed, and AAO Accounting Observer.

Accounting and finance research papers (working papers): SSRN.

On-line accounting and finance faculty directories: Prentice-Hall Online Accounting Faculty Directory by Jim Hasselback; Financial Data Finder at Ohio State.

Damodaran Online, a good source for finance and valuation teaching tools.

Accounting Hall of Fame at the Fisher School, Ohio State. Includes three current and past Rice University accounting professors -- Stephen Zeff (who is my co-author on two books), Philip Bell, and Edward Edwards. Another Hall of Fame professor, Yuji Ijiri, was a member of my Ph.D. thesis committee at Carnegie Mellon University.

Accounting glossaries: Glossary from Weygandt-Kieso-Kemmel book web page; Investopedia dictionary.

Law and economics news blogs: Find Law, ISS Securities Litigation Watch and Sentencing Law and Policy.

Political-social blogs (left and right): ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, AlterNet, Andrew Sullivan, Daou Report-Salon, Hugh Hewitt, and Power Line.

News on India and Chennai: Express India, Chennai Online, and the blogs LazyGeek and Teakada.

Technology news: CNET News.