BUSINESS
Other Online Resources
Accounting
Rutgers Accounting Web
One of the largest accounting web sites on the internet, RAW provides links to accounting resources and organizations.
Company Information
Company Profiles Datamonitor via EBSCOhost
With 10,000 company profiles, Datamonitor assesses the most important global companies, ensuring a balance between US, European and Asian companies as well as the key vertical markets. Companies are selected by a scoring system that takes the following into account: Stock exchange indices, investment bank coverage, key lists, annual turnover, and other minor factors including the number of employees, importance within the industry, future growth potential, and client feedback / customer demand for increased coverage. Company Profiles is also available within EBSCO's Business Source Premier database.
AnnualReports.com
This free financial report service provides PDF versions of company annual reports and HTML versions of companies' 10K forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies can be located by browsing alphabetically, by searching via company name or ticker symbol, by stock exchange, by industry, or by industry sector.
Researching Companies Online
A business research tutorial presenting a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the World Wide Web. Company/industry information is divided into thirteen broad categories.
Morningstar Investment Research Center Morningstar
Provides research and independent opinions on thousands of stocks and mutual funds to both beginning and experienced investors by helping patrons find funds or stocks, get data and guidance on individual stocks and funds, or put stocks and funds together in a portfolio and see how they perform. Newly added are quarterly reports on industry sectors.
Hoover's Online--The Business Network
A comprehensive source of business information. Includes core data on companies and industries. Also includes information on money management, career development, news, and business travel.
SEC Filings and Forms (EDGAR)
EDGAR is a database containing forms (such as merger, acquisition, 10-K reports, etc.) that public companies are required to file with the SEC. These electronic forms are available for free and are downloadable.
Wall-Street.com
Provides convenient, free-access to important investment information on the web.
Directories
Reference USA--Business, Residential, Healthcare, & TechUSA
RefUSA
The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; and 1 million Canadian businesses. Business and healthcare information is compiled from the following public sources: more than 5,600 Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; Continuing Medical Education (CME) directories; federal, state, provincial and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories; and postal service information. ReferenceUSA's residential information is compiled from more than 3,900 White Page telephone directories. Each U.S. residential listing also contains information from the most recent U.S. census, including median household income, median home value, latitude/longitude and percentage of owner-occupied housing.
ThomasNet
The world's leading resource for manufacturing information and e-commerce. Powered by ThomasRegister and ThomasRegional. (Formerly Thomas Register of American Manufacturers.)
Switchboard.com
An online directory for finding people, businesses, and products. Also includes maps and directions, and city guides.
Zycon
Zycon is a specialized directory designed to assist the engineering and manufacturing community find and evaluate manufacturers and suppliers worldwide. Searchable by product/service, company name, brand name, and popular category, Zycon's primary focus is on industrial manufacturing companies and distributors, with a small selection of commerical-based companies (such as those under Computer Equipment), as those also cater to the industrial community. Zycon does not list companies that supply primarily residential or agricultural products (i.e. swimming pools, DIY carports, arts & crafts, corn, tractors, etc). Zycon recently added a message forum for engineers to discuss important issues and its blog primarily focuses on energy and environmental issues.
Exchange Rates
XE.com: The Universal Currency Converter
Allows for interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the internet. Provides for rate calculations for every known world currency.
International Business
ExecutivePlanet.com
Provides access to Business Culture Guides for 45 countries.
GlobalEDGE
A gateway to web links on global business activities. Provides access to specialized knowledge on countries, cross-border business transactions, and cross-cultural management.
Country Commercial Guides [via Market Research Library](2001- )
Prepared annually by U.S. embassies, these reports from January 20, 2001 to the present provide a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments using economic, political, and market analyses. Do the following to access them from the above link (which opens in a new browser window),
- Type in Barton in the "Username" field; then Hackney1 in the "Password" field, and click "Submit."
- Then go to the "Country" drop down menu, scroll if necessary to find your country name, then highlight and click on it.
- Next, go to the "Report Type" field immediately below, click on the drop-down menu, and highlight and click on "Country Commercial Guide (CCG)," then click "GO" at the bottom of the screen.
- Finally, click on the first available link immediately below "Country Commercial Guide" to access the most recent complete report.
VIBES-Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
Provides over 1,600 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information. The links include full-text files of articles and recent reports, statistical tables and graphs, and web sites with links to other sources.
Marketing
Advertising Age
This site is the home page of the Ad Age Group, which publishes Advertising Age. Major categories include news and features, and Ad Age Dataplace.
Advertising World
The most extensive collection of advertising-related links on the web. Provides an index to over seventy-five categories relating to advertising and marketing.
Market Segmentation: A Guide to Sources of Information
Maintained by the Library of Congress's Business Reference Services, this useful site compiles a list of Internet sources on market segmentation. The resources are divided into types of market segmentation--generational, ethnicity, geographic, gender, gay/lesbian, and lifestyle. Each section includes lists of articles, books, statistics,and more, including links to trend trackers, research groups and marketing firms specializing in marketing to the various segments. Links generally send users to free resources, although occasionally, to fee-based sites.
SimplyMap Geographic Research
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data. These maps and high-resolution images can be exported to word processing or presentation software. Data can be selected, sorted, and compared to build custom reports that can then be exported to a spreadsheet. Historical census data can be explored to understand how regions change over time; estimates and projections can be used to analyze current and future trends.
Please Note: It is highly recommended that you create your own "Personal Work Space" on the site in order to save your work (once you create it, you will receive an email in which you must click on an activation link to activate your new account). The site does allow you to use a temporary work space, but if you do so, your work is not saved. Also, tutorials on how to use the site are available under the "Tutorial Videos" link in the top right corner once you use either the "Temporary Work Space" or "Personal Work Space" logins. (If the site is busy, try again later, as we have a limited number of "seats" to this resource and traffic may at times be heavy.)
Stock Information
Morningstar Library Edition Morningstar
Provides research and independent opinions on thousands of stocks and mutual funds to both beginning and experienced investors by helping patrons find funds or stocks, get data and guidance on individual stocks and funds, or put stocks and funds together in a portfolio and see how they perform.
Redherring.com (formerly StockMaster)
Stockpoint Markets
Library Research Guides for Business
Research Guides used in Hackney Library orientations for Business courses suggest resources appropriate for completing assigned projects and papers.
Last updated November 16, 2009
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