Table of Contents

• Best Resources
• Books
• Industry Information
• Industry Ratios
• Company and Stock Information
• Journal Indexes
• World Wide Web
• LiveRef

Many resources have quantitative and qualitative information on companies. The Resources that are listed below are the best sources for your project:

Financial Information*

• Company Web Pages, e.g., Dell Inc.
• Factiva . (It has a section on financial information.)
• Investext . (Analysts stock research reports from over 500 stock brokerage firms and investment banks)
• Standard & Poor's Market Insight . (Selected Compustat financial information using Excel Analytics).
• Securities and Exchange Commission's Edgar.(SEC Filings, e.g., 10K report)

Journal Indexes*

• ABI-Inform Global (Available on the Web with some full text articles)
• Accounting and Tax Index . (Principal index for accounting and tax articles. Available in PRINT ONLY)
• Factiva . (Available on the Web with full text articles)

 Industry Ratios* ( These important resources are available ONLY in print)

• Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios . 338.5/I42/FM-1-Ref. Latest on Reserve with earlier editions in the stacks.
• RMA Annual Statement Studies . 338/R642/FM-1-Ref. Latest on Reserve with earlier editions in the stacks

*The listed resources are described in more detail below.

Books
There are two resources that will assist in locating items in the Lehigh University Libraries.  It is:

1.  ASA, The Library's Online Catalog.  This lists all the items in the library and their location. 

Remember: There are no journal articles indexed in ASA.

1. Bizstats.com. Good source for business statistics. Its URL is http://www.bizstats.com/index.htm.
2. Investext.  It has analyst reports covering more than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries.  These reports come from over 500 Wall Street and international brokerage firms. 
3. Journal indexes list articles on industries.  See the Journal Indexes section for a listing of indexes.
4. Lexis Nexis Statistical. This is an index of statistics that is a is compilation of statistics from a variety of sources, some of which are available in print and/or on the fiche at Fairchild Library. NOTE: Web version may not have all of the statistics that are available in print.
5. Standard and Poor's Market Insight. This includes a variety of information including industry, stock, country, and company. It has the Industry Surveys.

1. Almanac of Business and Financial Ratios.  338.973/T864/FM-1-Ref.  Latest on Reserve and earlier editions in the stacks.
2. Bizstats.com. The URL is http://www.bizstats.com/.
3. Factiva. This information is available through the Company Quick Search option.
4. Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios.  338.5/I42/FM-1-Ref.  Latest on Reserve with earlier editions in the stacks.  Produced by Dun and Bradstreet.
5. RMA Annual Statement Studies.  338/R642/FM-1-Ref.  Latest on Reserve and earlier editions in the stacks.

1. Factiva. The Company Quick Search has the financial information.
2. Lexis Nexis Academic.  This database has a Business section with divisions including Industry, Company Financial and Business News.
3. Morningstar.com (Library Edition). Provides information on companies and mutual funds. It complements Investext, Factiva and the Standard and Poor's Market Insight .
4. SEC Edgar Database.  See World Wide Web for description.  Its URL is http://www.sec.gov/.
5. Standard and Poor's Market Insight. This resource provides quantitative and qualitative data on companies and industries. It includes access to the SEC's Edgar database and S&P's Industry Surveys.
6. Zacks Investment Research.  Provides investment information on a company including financials, buy/sell/hold/ information and earnings estimates.  Its URL is  http://my.zacks.com/ .

1. ABI-Inform Global .  Indexes over 1400 journals in management and business.  Coverage is from 1987 for most journals.  About 45% of the articles are available in full text.
2. ABI-Inform Trade & Industry. Indexes resources with a trade or industry focus.
3. Accounting and Tax Index.  Available only in print and is shelved in Index Section, Reference, Fairchild Library.  Formerly called the Accountant's Index, Supplement.
4. Econlit.  A good index for the research journals that cover company information from a business perspective.
5. Factiva. It replaced the Dow Jones Interactive database. Covers over 8000 publications (full text) back to early 1980's.

 

Statistical Resources on the Web are:

1. Bizstats.com. Good source for business statistics. Its URL is http://www.bizstats.com/index.htm.
2. Company Web Pages.  These are good sources of financial information BUT the companies that issue the information maintain these pages.
3. SEC Edgar Database.  This is available via Factiva and at this URL, http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

There are additional resources including web sites that can assist you in locating information on an industry, legal information, marketing, statistics, etc.  The first two are related to accounting.  They are:

1. Rutgers Accounting Web site (or RAW). This is the largest accounting web site on the Internet. Its URL is http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/.
2. Financial Accounting Standards Board. Here you access summaries of all the FASB on accounting principles and the full text documents. The FASB Statements in full text, plus summaries, and status are available at this URL, http://www.fasb.org/st/.