Recommended Databases 

Business & Company Resource Center 
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals on more than 300,000 companies.  Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.  Trade association info can be found here.  Clearly organized!  Updated daily.

Business & Industry 
A database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets.  It covers all industries and is international in scope.  B&I draws content from over 1000 trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies and newsletters.

Investext Plus (Access via Thomson One Banker within Research Module)
Full-text company and industry financial reports produced by 700 of the leading international investment banks, brokerage firms and trade associations.  Covering more than 11,000 companies and over 50 industries, Investext reports contain information such as industry trends, market share, and emerging technologies.  Coverage is current for the last 5 years and updated monthly.

Marketresearch.com Academic 
More than 500 full-text market research studies.

Mergent Online
Financial data and EDGAR filings for domestic and international companies.  Annual reports from 1996-present.

Wall Street Journal 
Contains the full text of all articles, features and columns from the eastern edition of the Wall Street Journal. Several items (advertisements, stock tables, dividend tables, futures prices, Digest of Earnings tables) that appear in the regular Wall Street Journal are not included.  The web version has coverage from 1984, with continuous updates.

 Recommended Reference Tools (in the West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center)

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
Compare your company's data with the industry. Provides an industry average for financial statement accounts, common-size statements for the industry, and industry ratios.

Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys
Provides a thorough overview of major industries, including information on current environment, industry trends, how the industry operates, key industry ratios and stats, and how to analyze a specific company within that industry. Industry references are included which provide a listing of industry periodicals and trade associations. Each volume provides an industry outlook and stock price analysis section in the front.

Troy's Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Profiles financial and operating ratios, with breakdown by asset size, for approximately 181 industries including manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, banks, and financial industries and services. Ratios measure industry success and growth possibilities.

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