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Glossary Mining: Getting Down to Business
Lee Wright
As indicated in the title, this installment will focus on online resources in various business-related subjects: accounting, advertising and marketing, banking and finance, economics, investments, real estate, shipping, and taxes. Although there are undoubtedly many resources in all major languages, the websites listed here primarily involve English and Spanish. I will start with a few sites that deal with general business topics. Please note that certain websites are listed in more than one category.
GENERAL BUSINESS TOPICS
(ENGLISH)
AllBusiness
www.allbusiness.com/glossary/glossary.asp
Allows you to do a simple alphabetical search by clicking on the designated letter you wish to search under.
International Market Research Reports
www.internationalbusinessstrategies.com
Offers current international market research reports on more than 130 topics from more than 75 countries. Reports include market size information, market access strategies, market share, export and import information, market analysis, market trends, competition, domestic production, best sales prospects, statistical data, tariffs, regulations, distribution and business practices, end-user analysis, trade shows, and contact points.
The Washington Post
Business from A to Z
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/glossary/index.html
GENERAL BUSINESS TOPICS
(SPANISH)
Gerencia y Negocios en Hispanoamérica
www.degerencia.com/glosario.php
LegisComex
www.legiscomex.com/Glosario.asp?Letra=A
GENERAL BUSINESS TOPICS
(BILINGUAL)
Glosario Económico
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
www.usergioarboleda.edu.co/observatorio_economico/GLOSARIO/A.htm
GENERAL BUSINESS TOPICS
(TRILINGUAL)
Glosario de Términos financieros y de negocios
www.intracen.org/tfs/docs/glossary/as.htm
ACCOUNTING (ENGLISH)
FindLaw for Small Businesses
http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/accounting/accounting-tax-glossary.html
A glossary of taxation and accounting terms.
New York Society of Certified Public Accountants
www.nysscpa.org/prof_library/guide.htm
Developed as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information.
Principles of Accounting
www.principlesofaccounting.com
This free online textbook provides complete coverage of material found in most college-level financial accounting courses and managerial accounting courses. In addition to the text, the book includes a number of interactive components to aid your learning process. Most components are cross-linked for easy navigation
Small Business Taxes and
Management (A-M)
www.smbiz.com/sbgl001.html
Small Business Taxes and
Management (N-Z)
www.smbiz.com/sbgl002.html
VentureLine
www.ventureline.com/glossary_A.asp
Contains information on ratio analysis and industry analysis tools; professional business valuation; financial statement analysis (private); financial statement analysis (public); financial analysis versus industry analysis; and industry analysis by MBA. You can also download a PDF version of the Venture Line Accounting Glossary for $16.95.
ACCOUNTING (SPANISH)
Catálogo de Términos Contables
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/ctc/index.htm
Consultor Electrónico del Contador y el Auditor
www.cubaindustria.cu/ContadorOnline/Glosario/Glosario_Indice.htm#A
This site contains very extensive definitions of many terms, but access is extremely slow.
Contabilidad.tk
Centro de Estudios Financieros
www.contabilidad.tk
This site also contains a complete online textbook, which is very well written and detailed.
ACCOUNTING (BILINGUAL)
Diccionario Inglés-Español de Términos Contables
www.spanish-translator-services.com/espanol/diccionarios/contable-ingles-espanol/index.htm
Spanish into English Dictionary of Accounting Terms
www.spanish-translator-services.com/dictionaries/accounting-spanish-english
Spanish into English Glossary of Managerial Accounting
www.mhhe.com/business/accounting/garrison/Student/olc/garrison9emgr acct_s/chapterindex22.htm
Glosario de Contabilidad
http://baseportal.com/baseportal/glosario/main
Contains Puerto Rican terminology.
FINANCE (ENGLISH)
Finance, including banking and investments, is another subject with extensive online resources. Here is just a small sampling of what's out there in cyberspace.
Bankrate's Financial Glossary
www.bankrate.com/brm/definitions.asp?channelid=23
Baruch College ( City University of New York )
Guide to Financial Statements
www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/statements
Bloomberg Financial Glossary
www.bloomberg.com/invest/glossary/bfglosa.htm
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
http://minneapolisfed.org/glossary.cfm
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
www.frbsf.org/tools/glossary/glossReg.html
Forbes Financial Glossary
www.forbes.com/tools/glossary/glossary.jhtml?letter=a
Global Investor Glossary
www.finance-glossary.com/search/a.htm?ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=
Investor Dictionary.com
www.investordictionary.com/dictionary/terms/a.aspx
Investopedia
www.investopedia.com/dictionary
Special Investor Financial Dictionary
www.specialinvestor.com/dictionary/a.html
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Beginner's Guide to Financial Statements
www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/begfinstmtguide.htm
FINANCE (SPANISH)
Citigroup
www.citibank.com/citigroup/financialeducation/curriculum/pdf/glosario.pdf
Diccionario Básico Tributario Contable
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/dbtc/index.htm
Diccionario de economía y finanzas
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/dic-cs.htm
Mercado Mexicano de Derivados
www.mexder.com.mx/MEX/Glosario.html
Contains terminology of stock market derivatives.
Glosario Básicos de Seguridad y Crédito
www.mastercard.com/us/personal/es/basicosdeseguridad/glosario/index.html
Glosario de términos económicos y financieros
http://training.itcilo.it/actrav/finance/hedderwick/glos.htm
FINANCE (BILINGUAL)
Bolsar Diccionario bursátil
www.bolsar.com/NET/Capacitacion/Diccionario/diccionario.aspx?letra=A
Diccionario Español-Inglés de Términos Financieros
www.spanish-translator-services.com/espanol/diccionarios/finanzas-espanol-ingles/a/index.htm
Finanzas.com
www.finanzas.com/glosario/buscador.asp?l=A&id=0
Futuros Trading, LLC.
www.futuros.com/glosario.html
Glosario de Mercados Financieros
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/glosario_de_mercados_financieros.htm
Spanish into English Dictionary of Finance
www.spanish-translator-services.com/dictionaries/finance-spanish-english/a/index.htm
The Center Online Una Guía para la Terminología del Mercado de Futuros y Opciones
www.thectr.com/glossary/spanish.htm
A good site for stock market terminology.
ECONOMICS (ENGLISH)
Economics is another well-represented subject on the web, as evidenced by the following sites:
About:Economics
http://economics.about.com/od/economicsglossary/Glossary_of_dictionary.htm
Economics_Terms_Economics_Dictionary.htm
English Glossary/Castellano de Términos Publicitarios y de Marketing
www.fcom-udep.net/gloster.html
Glosario de Términos de Comercio Exterior (English version)
www.elsalvadortrade.com.sv/i_html/glosario.html
Houghton Mifflin Economics
www.johnwiley.com.au/highered/eco2e/micro/student-res/glossary.html
Peter Meyer's Glossary of Economic Terms
http://econterms.com/econtent.html
Political Economy Terms Glossary
www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss
ECONOMICS (SPANISH)
Contabilidad.tk
www.contabilidad.tk
Despite this site's URL, it actually deals with macroeconomics rather than accounting.
Edición Impresa
www.2001.com.ve/glosario_economico.asp
Glosario de términos económicos y financieros
http://training.itcilo.it/actrav/finance/hedderwick/glos.htm
Glosarium.com
Glosario de Economía Mexicana
www.glosarium.com/list/12/1,A,,xhtml
Vocabulario de la Economía
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/jph/index.htm
This site contains very detailed definitions and explanations.
TAXES (ENGLISH)
Another popular topic is taxes, and there are quite a number of sites on this subject. Here are just a few of them.
CompleteTax
www.completetax.com/taxguide/glossary/glossary.asp
H&R Block
www.hrblock.com/taxes/fast_facts/glossary/tax_glossary.jsp
Tax Gaga.com
www.taxgaga.com/pages/c-taxresources/dir-glossary.html
Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/glossary/a
TAXES (SPANISH)
Diccionario Básico Tributario Contable
www.eumed.net/cursecon/dic/dbtc/index.htm
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
www.dgii.gov.do/legislacion/glosariotrib.html
Impuestum.com
www.impuestum.com/glosario
Diccionario Básico Tributario Contable
www.sii.cl/diccionario_tributario/dicc_a.htm
TAXES (BILINGUAL)
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas. Lima – Perú Tribunal Fiscal
http://tribunal.mef.gob.pe/glosariotributos.htm
REAL ESTATE (ENGLISH)
There are also a few sites that deal with real estate terminology, such as the following ones:
Atrea Glossary of Real Estate Terms
www.atrea.com/ATREA/public/UCAGlosario.jsp?marca_blanca=terra
REAL ESTATE (SPANISH)
Rogue Investor
www.rogueinvestor.com/Spanish
Zona Hogar
www.ginniemae.gov/homezone/brainfood/sp_glossary.html
REAL ESTATE (BILINGUAL)
Property in Spain Real estate Spanish into English Glossary
www.euroresidentes.com/Property/spanish-real-estate-glossary.htm
MARKETING AND ADVERTISING (SPANISH)
Castellano de Términos
Publicitarios y de Marketing
www.fcom-udep.net/gloster.html
Hipermarketing.com
www.hipermarketing.com/nuevo%204/herramientas/Glosario/nivel2glosario.html
Marketingdirecto
www.marketingdirecto.com/glosario/lista_terminos.php?inicial=all
Portal-Industrial Glosario de Términos de Marketing
www.portal-industrial.com.ar/index.php/news/main/49/event=view
Contains Argentine terminology.
MISCELLANEOUS SITES
Completing the business scenario are sites that deal with a number of other subjects.
SHIPPING
Proexport Colombia
www.proexport.com.co/VBeContent/NewsDetail.asp?ID=1579&IDCompany=16
Shipping Freight Definitions List
www.apparelsearch.com/definitions/Definition_List_Shipping.htm
U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration Glossary of Shipping Terms
www.marad.dot.gov/Publications/glossary/A.html
FOREIGN TRADE AND CUSTOMS
Aduana General de la República Primera Parte del Glosario de Términos Aduaneros
www.aduana.islagrande.cu/glosa1.htm
Glosario de Términos Aduaneros
www.aduanet.gob.pe/aduanas/glosario/glosarioA-Z.htm
Glosario de Términos de Comercio Exterior
www.elsalvadortrade.com.sv/html/glosario.html
Portal de Negocios Internacionales Glosario Comercio Exterior
http://kompass.cl/glosario_comex
Términos útiles en comercio exterior
www.taric.es/services/glosario/glosario.asp
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Public Administration Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Glosario de Términos sobre Administración Pública
www.unmsm.edu.pe/ogp/ARCHIVOS/glosario/inda.htm
Wideman Compartive Glossary of Project Management Terms, version 3.1
http://maxwideman.com/pmglossary/index.htm
MORTGAGES
Atrea Iniciativas Residenciales en Internet
Glossary of Real Estate Terms
www.atrea.com/ATREA/public/UCAGlosario.jsp?marca_blanca=terra
LEASING (SPANISH)
Centro de Atención al Cliente Leasing Bancolombia
www.leasingbancolombia.com/leasing/glosario/glosario.asp
International Monetary Fund Multilingual Glossary
www.imf.org/external/np/term/index.asp?index=esl&index_langid=3
German, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
International Monetary Fund Spanish into English Glossary
www.imf.org/external/np/term/browse.asp?letter=A&index_langid=3&index=esl
THERE'S MORE COMING!
The next installment of this series will feature sites that provide terminology and other resources on the sciences.
Lee Wright has been an ATA member since 1975, and is ATA-certified (Spanish-English). He served two terms as an ATA director and four years as editor of The ATA Chronicle . After working eight years as the in-house translator for a major international engineering and construction firm, he started freelancing in 1982. From 1990 to 2004, he was an adjunct associate professor of Spanish translation at Kent State University (Institute for Applied Linguistics). He currently teaches online courses in Spanish-English legal and technical translation for New York University . Contact: lwright3@gmail.com
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