Finance
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General Reference
Chronology of the Stock Market REF. HG4572 .W75 2002
Dictionary of Finance & Investment Terms, Barron's Defines terms used in the areas of investments, taxation, economics, consumer & corporate finance and related fields.
The Dow Jones averages 1885-1990 REF. HG4915 .D64331991
International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market Ref. HG4551 .I57 1999
Penguin International Dictionary of Finance Covers terms used in banking, commodity markets, insurance, money markets, securities, accounting, business finance, investment appraisal, public finance, savings and investments, taxation and international financial institutions--includes some foreign terms and acronyms.
Journal (magazine & newspaper) Indexes & Databases
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
ABI Inform
ABI Inform provides citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles on business and management topics from U.S. and international publications; it is useful for finding scholarly articles. ABI Inform is also good for narrowing searches, due to its robust indexing and search capabilities.
Business Source Elite Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies (from Datamonitor). This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Factiva
Factiva is a full-text database that comprises a collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as D&B company profiles. Charting and stock price information is also available from the "Companies/Markets" tab.
Business students find Factiva useful for research on publicly traded companies, industry information, and marketing research. Factiva has robust search capabilities that make it particularly useful for hard-to-find and highly specific information needs.
Lexis-Nexis is a full-text, business, legal, and reference database. Business information includes company profile information, company financial information, and industry information. Information is included for both publicly and privately owned corporations and for international as well as U.S. companies. Lexis-Nexis is also a good resource for magazines, newspapers, and journals (including the New York Times) and a prime resource for legal information--both statutory and case law. The legal section of Lexis-Nexis includes regulatory information, international legal information, and law reviews. The Reference section of Lexis-Nexis includes Roper Poll data, country profiles, state profiles, and biograpical information.
A number of additional electronic resources of interest to business researchers are available from the Library’s web page. See Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers by Subject on the library's web page for a complete and up-to-date listing.
Investment Resources
Moody's Bank & Finance Manual REF. HG4961 .M65
Mergent Company Archives Manual Ref. HG4028.M4 M5
Mergent Complete Corporate Indes Ref. HG4961 .M665
Mergent Industrial ManualREF. HG4961 .M67
Mergent Public Utility & Transportation Manual REF. HG4961 .M72453
Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks REF. HG4509 .M815
Morningstar Mutual Fund 500 Ref. HG4530 .M664
The Value Line Investment Survey REF. HG4501 .V26 The Value Line Investment Survey, Expanded Edition REF. HG4501 .V262
Free Internet Resources
CEOExpress Meta site, links to numerous business news, charting, and pricing sites.
Finance Resources on the Web Finance web site created by Ian Giddy, finance faculty member at Stern School of Business, NYU--includes links to scholarly and general sites in Finance.
FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
Inc.com Inc. magazine's web site includes articles on a variety of articles on business topics.
Investing in Bonds The Bond Market Association web site includes searchable bond prices and charts.
Liber8 Economic information site from the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
Wachowicz's Web World Web sites for discerning finance students. Designed to supplement the textbook, Fundamentals of Financial Management, but contains links to a wealth of business and financial information.
Financial Ratios in the Library Reference Collection
Financial Studies of the Small Business, published by Financial Research Associates
Ref. HD 2346 .U5 F55a 1990-
This is a looseleaf service, updated through 2002.
RMA Annual Statement Studies. (Robert Morris Associates) REF.HC106.5.A17A
A collection of "composite" balance sheets, income statements, and business ratios for manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, and service industries. RMA includes an annotated bibliography of other sources for financial and operating ratios.
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios. (Dun & Bradstreet) REF.HF5681.R25I525
This source provides key business ratios, information on "typical" balance sheet figures, "common size" balance sheet figures, and net sales for over eight hundred types of business. All information is arranged by SIC classifications.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios. REF.HF5681.R25T68
This source provides financial and operating ratios for approximately 160 businesses including banking and finance, manufacturing, retailing, and wholesaling. Statistics are based on the most current business year for which IRS tax records are published. Statistics are thus about three years behind. Recent editions include a CD-ROM version of the data.
Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys. REF. HC 106.6 S74
This source provides basic data on 50+ important industries. The "basic analysis" begins with an examination of the prospects for the particular industry, followed by an analysis of trends and problems in historical context and financial comparisons of the leading companies within the industry. The 11 Current Analysis sections provide the latest developments and available industry, market and company statistics along with S&P's appraisal of the investment outlook in the industry.
Financial Ratio Information on the Web
NetMBA
Descriptions of financial ratios, their classification and use.
American Express
Financial ratios calculator from American Express.
Key Financial Ratios
You can get free financial ratios by entering ticker symbols at this MSN investor site.
Financial Ratios Calculator
& Financial Ratios Explained University of Washington Libraries Financial Ratios Calculator and Explanation.
Financial Ratios
Wikipedia article on financial ratios with links to calculators and other useful web sites.
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--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 12:57, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
