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Accounting

Financial Information

  • Thomson Research
    Financial information on thousands of U.S. and international public companies. Company information includes extensive online financial filings, annual reports, price and earnings data, quarterly and annual financial figures, company profiles, and spreadsheet financials.

Industry Averages and Ratios

  • Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios, Ref HF5681 .R25 A45
  • Analyst's Handbook (Standard & Poor's), Ref HG4905 .A66
  • Annual Statement Studies (Robert Morris Associates), Ref HF5681 .B2
  • Factiva
  • Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
  • S & P Statistical Service, Ref HG4915 .S68
  • S&P Industry Surveys, Ref HG4501 .S74 (Ref Desk)
  • Mergent's Industry Review, Ref HG4961 .M68
  • Value Line Investment Survey, Ref HG4501 .V263 (Ref Desk)

The Business Press

  • Academic Search Elite/EBSCOHost
    Fulltext database for over 1,200 journals dating back to 1990. It also indexes over 3000 scholarly journals (1,700 peer-reviewed) covering a wide range of academic topics including business.

  • LexisNexis Academic
    Full-text database of thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, news wires, legal and government sources. Dates of coverage and updates vary from title to title. See Business section for particular Accounting resources.

  • Accounting and Tax Index (Index Table A; Reference Room)
    This excellent paper index provides citations to articles about virtually every aspect of accounting and taxation. Search the index for accounting concepts (e.g. activity based costing). Check OSCAR for Library holdings.

  • Factiva
    Access to over 6,000 full-text business publications including newspapers, newswires, journals, magazines, and trade publications. Also contains in depth financial information.

  • Hoovers Online
    Information on more than 14,000 companies, including company profiles, financials, competitors, news stories, and more.

Check OSCAR

OSCAR, the library's catalog, is useful for finding books, proceedings, journals, and other materials located in the library. Look up journals by Title; books by either Author or Title, if you know what you are looking for. If you are not sure, or do not know what you are looking for, you can search by Keyword or Subject.

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Come to the Reference Desk (408-554-4658) on the first floor of the Library or Ask a Librarian.

 

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