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- Our largest database for business and management articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Includes working papers, Datamonitor reports, business books, and more.
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See also the Investment Data & Analysis sources below.
- Provides summaries (often quite detailed) of best practice research conducted for major corporations.
- Covers financial management (look in the "Business Operations" section).
- Searchable by company, industry, and topic.
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Online Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (2nd edition)
- Covers accounting, economics, finance, information systems, law, management, and marketing.
- 300 entries; published in 2006
Gale Encyclopedia of Management
- Covers over 300 management theories and applications.
- 5th edition; 2006
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance
- Each entry includes a bibliography.
- 1st edition; published in 1998.
Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms
- Includes over 4,000 terms covering investments, taxation, economics, consumer and corporate finance, and related fields.
- Also includes a list of abbreviations.
- 5th edition; published in 1998.
- Provides data for around 6,000 U.S. stocks
- Povides analyst reports for 1,000 of those stocks.
- Also provides screeners, a portfolio x-ray, and education tools.
S&P NetAdvantage: Stock Reports
- Do a company search to find these.
- The S&P Stock Reports provide performance data, analysis, and investment advice for 10,000 U.S. stocks.
- Presents 10 years of data.
- Each report is updated weekly, or more often for important developments.
Mergent Horizon (5 concurrent users)
- Covers around 6,200 public companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX companies).
- Provides screens, indices, charts, and more for companies and industrial sectors.
- Provides detailed financials and descriptions of 42,000 US and international public companies.
- Covers product, service, and business lines, sales by continents and product lines, balance sheets, income and cash flow statements, ratios, stock, bond, and earnings information, top shareholders, subsidiaries, board members, senior executives and their salaries, and merger and acquisitions.
- Data can be exporting into Excel
- Companies can be easily compared using the Peer Report and Peer Analysis tabs.
S&P NetAdvantage: Company Profiles
- Provides detailed profiles of 11,000 U.S. public companies.
- Covers business description, financial and stock data, officers, and subsidiaries.
- Also provides U.S. company income statements, balance sheets, ratios, and monthly stock data in Excel via "Compustat Excel Analytics," and the same for international companies via "Compustat International Fundamental Reports."
- Financial comparisons of competitors (U.S. and international) are also provided through the Compustat data.
Mergent Horizon (5 concurrent users)
- Covers around 6,200 public companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX companies) and hundreds of product and service sectors.
- Provides detailed hypertext product and service hierarchies for each company.
- Identifies competitors, customers, suppliers, and partners.
- Provides peer-group, competitive analysis, and merger and acquisition analysis tools.
- Includes detailed stock performance data.
- Provides enhanced data for health care, technology, media, and finance companies.
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Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides brief information on 445,000 US and international companies.
- Provides reports on over 1,000 US and international industries.
- Covers associations, company financials, company histories and chronologies, company rankings, market research reports, market share, products, suits, and claims.
Hoover's Company Records (via LexisNexis Academic)
- Look for the Hoover's link in the "Business Description" section of LexisNexis' company profiles.
- Hoovers provides several thousand profiles of public and private, U.S. and international companies.
- Provides executives, company description, history, NAICS and SIC codes, segemented sales data, and competitors.
Sorry, these links only work on campus. But if you create your own, free NetLibrary account, you can access these ebooks from off-campus. NetLibrary also provides many general "how to use Excel" books.
- Excel Best Practices for Business (Wiley, 2004)
- Building Financial Models With Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals (Wiley, 2004)
- Financial Statements.xls: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Financial Statements Using Microsoft Excel (Limelight, 2003)
- Accessing and Analyzing Data With Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Press, 2003)
