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What follows immediately below are sections about:

• Best Resources you are most likely to need in ACCT 151.
• Other Resources you may need to consult from time to time.

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Table of Contents

BEST RESOURCES

OTHER RESOURCES:

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

BEST RESOURCES

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. Includes annual reports to shareholders (financial statements) and other company related information.
• Factiva Its Companies/Market section has financial information on publicly traded companies.
• Standard and Poor's Net Advantage. Selected financial statement information from the Compustat database; click on Excel Analytics.
• Securities and Exchange Commission's Edgar SEC Filings, e.g., 10K report

Journal Indexes*

• ABI-Inform Global: This indexes journal articles with some articles that are full text.
• Accounting and Tax Index: Principal index for accounting and tax articles. Available in PRINT ONLY
• Factiva. This indexes over fulltext articles from over 10,000 sources.

 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 R642a FM-1-Ref. Latest on Reserve with earlier editions in the stacks.

*The listed resources are described in more detail below.

Books
Here is one resource that will assist you in locating items owned by the Lehigh University Libraries:

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. Journal indexes list articles on industries.  See the Journal Indexes section for a listing of indexes.
3. 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.
4. Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage. 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 T864a FM-1-Ref.  Latest on Reserve and earlier editions in the stacks. [2006 is on reserve]
2. Bizstats.com. The URL is http://www.bizstats.com/.
3. Factiva. This information is available through the Company/Markets' Search Section.
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/Markets' Search Section has the financial information.
2. Lexis Nexis Academic.  This database has a Business section with divisions including Industry, Company Financial and Business News.
3. SEC Edgar Database.  See World Wide Web for description.  Its URL is http://www.sec.gov/.
4. Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage. 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.
5. 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. Of especial inportance is the Investor Relations section of the Web site.
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://raw.rutgers.edu/.
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/.

LiveRef

If you need assistance with research for a project , you may click on the LiveRef icon. There you can have a real time chat with a Lehigh librarian. You can access LiveRef at the top of http://www.Lehigh.EDU/library/onlineref.html.