Core Resources
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MarketLine AdvantageInteractive platform with company, industry, financial and country business data offering 1.8 million documents, including reports and case studies for industries and companies, city and country statistics, market data analytics, and a financial deals tracker. Global coverage of industries with 4000 industry profiles and 30,000+ companies within 215 countries.
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Morningstar Investment Research Center.Provides independent investment analysis of 1500 stocks and 2000 mutual funds. Provides tools to research stocks, analyze a portfolio, or find companies that meet specified investment criteria. Limited to 3 concurrent users, so click 'End Session' when done researching.
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Value Line Research CenterProvides detailed analysis and key financial ratios for stocks (including Small and Mid Cap) and mutual funds, and overviews of about 100 industry segments. Limited to 6 concurrent users, so please return to the Research Center and click Log Off when finished.
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Mergent OnlineContains company details, financials, SIC filings, and news on publicly traded companies. Also provides Country Profiles. License limited to 3 simultaneous users, LOGOUT when through searching.
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Mergent ArchivesHundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. Includes Digitized Corporate Manual Collection, Digitized Municipal & Government Manual Collection, and Key Business Ratio Collection.
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S & P's NetAdvantageUnfortunately, our access to NetAdvantage ends on January 11, 2021. We are in the process of adding a replacement resource, though. Faculty, staff and students will soon have access to WRDS with Compustat. Please check here for updates.
Contains current and historical information about markets, industries, companies, mutual funds, price forecasts and much more. Company information includes company profile, corporation records, fundamentals reports, and stock reports. Financial education area includes key calculators, as well as information sheets. -
Nexis Uni (replaces LexisNexis Academic)15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
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Business Source UltimateOur most comprehensive coverage of business publications for management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more, with not only academic journals, magazines, trade journals, book chapters, conference papers but also country-specific reports, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses, legal summaries, and CFRA industry surveys.
Unlike Business Source Complete, this version allows unrestricted access to Harvard Business Review (including removing restrictions to the top 500 articles) for course use, enabling linking, printing and downloading that was often unavailable in Business Source Complete. It also increases the number of active, non-OA full-text peer-reviewed journals from 970 to 1,519 and the number without any embargo from 473 to 966.
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Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios14 key business ratios showing solvency, efficiency, and profitability for public and private companies in 800 lines of business. Provided by Mergent.
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IBISWorldA collection of industry market research and industry risk ratings, offering reports on more than 1300 US industries. Over 700 NAICS Industry reports, 600+ US Specialized Industry Reports on emerging and sub niche industries, US Business Environment Profiles provide data and analysis on more than 350 key economic, demographic and consumer indicators, US and International Risk Rating Reports, 74 Global Industry Reports full of statistics and easy-to-digest analysis.
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) dataIncludes:
International Financial Statistics – all aspects of international and domestic finance, with history to 1948.
Direction of Trade - value of exports and imports between countries and their trading partners, with history to 1980.
Balance of Payments - international economic transactions data and International Investment Position, with history to 1960.
Government Finance Statistics - budgetary and extra-budgetary financial operations data of governments, with history to 1990. -
OECD iLibraryJournals, books, and statistics from the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). Special emphasis on international economics, development and health; country economics, and agriculture. More than 45 different statistical databases, with internationational coverage.
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Economist Intelligence UnitSpecialized information such as Country Profile, Country Report, Country Data/Market Indicators and Forecasts.
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RIA CheckpointDeveloped for tax preparers and other accounting professionals. Contains the full-text of United States tax law and code (with commentary), IRS rulings and releases, tax news sources, tax court rulings and international tax treaties.
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