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Use databases to find articles on your topic. These databases are the best place to start.
Tips: When searching databases, use AND, OR, and parentheses to focus your search. Put exact phrases into quotes. Combine synonyms with OR and put them inside parentheses, like this:
(General Electric OR GE) AND ("financial reporting")
Here's another example:
(securities markets or stock market) AND ("beverage industry")
Already have the citation? Find an article with citation linker!
Did you know...
Databases are basically just search engines for articles on specific subjects.
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Find books using the library catalog. Browse these subjects to get general information on your topic.
- Corporations Finance
- Investment Analysis
- Portfolio Management
Search the library catalog! Find books, media materials, and more.
Other searches:
Browse | Advanced Search
Tips: When searching the library catalog with keywords, use the dollar sign ($) to search for a word and all of its variations.
For example: market$ will search for market, markets, marketing, etc.
Did you know...
- WorldCat is a catalog of thousands of libraries around the world!
- If a book isn't in the Fairfield University catalog, search WorldCat and request the book from another library. Just click on the Interlibrary Loan button.
- You can search ReQuest to search just the libraries in Connecticut.
- Contact John Cayer, Interlibrary Services, with questions.
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Getting reliable statistics on a company's competitors
or industry is an important part of determining the financial standing
of any company. The following sources may help:
- Compare two or more companies in an industry and download key financial information using Mergent.
- Business & Company Resource Center
Full-text articles and citations to the
business literature. Also includes company profiles and industry
information. Useful to get secondary sources on specific companies or
industries.
- Almanac of Business & Industrial Ratios
Ref HF5681 .R25 T68 - located on the Main Level
By industry, designated by NAICS codes in the latest edition, SIC codes in older editions.
- Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios
Ref HD2771 .D865. On Permanent Reserve, ask at the Reserve Desk.
Listed by SIC code. From Dun & Bradstreet.
- Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys
Ref HC106.6 .S74 - located on the Main Level
Published quarterly. Basic analysis of major domestic industries. Each
analysis examines the prospects for a particular industry and analyzes
trends and problems in historical perspective. Provides comparisons of
the growth in sales and earnings of the leading companies in each industry.
Tip - The importance of SIC and NAICS Codes
Many of the resources listed here use SIC (Standard Industrial
Classifications) codes or NAICS (North American Industry Classification
System) codes to classify information. Searching by these codes can be
very effective.
Every industry is assigned a
four-digit SIC code, so all companies in the same industry will have
the same code. A company may have more than one SIC code if they are in
different segments of industry, but usually only one or two are
considered the primary SIC codes.
The NAICS system of six-digit numbers
is replacing the SIC system. Many of our business databases, such as
Business & Company Resource Center, will list the codes for a
particular company or industry.
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- Mergent
Contains extensive data for US and international company data, with a
focus on financial information, including annual reports. Financial
information is downloadable into Excel.
- SEC EDGAR database
- YAHOO! Finance
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- Morningstar
Provides data analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and variable annuity/life subaccounts.
- Value Line Investment Survey
HG4501 .V26 RATINGS & REPORTS
HG4501 .V26 SELECTION & OPINION
on Permanent reserve behind Circulation Desk
Coming soon as an electronic database!
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