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The Canadian Finance and Leasing Association and its over 260 members. Contains searchable information about members. Guidelines for consumer car leasing. Notwithstanding member only pages - a useful site. |
ELA has changed its name - following the Canadian lead so to speak! ELFA is the largest US Lessors Association. Site is mostly for members but provides a link to its "Foundation" which is more informative for non members. |
 home to over 3,000
leasing Cos! |
Friendly informative site - somewhat like this one! Covers leasing worldwide with good coverage of India and other Asian countries. |
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US Professor's Finance WEB site. Lots of great links. |
Attempts to collate all the PPSA legislation. Currently covers AB (Needs redirect), SK, MB, ON, Quebec, NS, NB & Yukon |
Other Financial & News Sites |
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Great international finance magazine. Some articles for subscribers but lots for the visitor |
Sites contains recent and current day Press Releases. Typically the Press Releases (for ex on annual or quarterly results) are much more comprehensive than what gets into the newspaper. Of course there is no critical comment either! Useful for Co and Industry news. |
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Canada's original National Daily. Getting better all the time. This is also an excellent site with related sites providing career opportunities, mutual fund and stock tracking. |
Canadian site. Allows ordering of individual Co reports at a cost ranging from $7 for a Business Verification Report to $104.25 for a "BIR" and $169.75 for the "full monty". You will need a credit card. |
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Information on major bankruptcies in US & occasionally Canada. Now tend to charge for access to specific details ie on Parmalat! |
Government Information Sources
Access to Federal and various Provincial Government sites. Recent Supreme court decisions etc. |
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Statistics Canada is notorious for selling its information at exorbitant prices. However there is a lot of very useful information here (for free!). |
Inexhaustive source of trade information provided by Industry Canada. Also information on all Federally incorporated Cos. Through a change in the law financial information on federally incorporated Cos is no longer provided. |
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Canadian Securities Commission. Provides comprehensive filing data on most Cdn public Cos. Actual filing are in PDF (Acrobat) format. So simply save to disk or use Acrobat to open and print or read. |
Massive site run by US SEC. Contains all filings for public Cos in US. Also contains quite a few Canadian filings where the security is also being "flogged" in the US. Note downloads can be 100 pages + . You may wish to try Edgarscan |
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Official site of the Cdn Institute of Chartered Accountants. Contains a number of rulings. |
Interest & bond rates for
the last 10 years etc |
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Great currency converter - virtually every currency you could think of (164)! Also has Xchange data back to 1/90 |
TimeValue produce financial software that is very easy to use. Check out our Home Page to check your lease rate using their engine. |
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Bros Auctioneers - Great site for
checking auction values of used equipment. Need to set up a free ID and
password |
The ultimate search engines on the Web is Google. |
