ABI/INFORM - now Business Scholarly & Trade (ProQuest) - NEW INTERFACE
Key source for business articles.
Subjects: Business, Communications, Economics, Health Admin, Public Admin
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news, dissertations
Search Instruction: Using ProQuest PowerSearch
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Accounting & Tax- NEW INTERFACE
Subjects: Accounting, Auditing, Finance
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles
Standard & Poors NetAdvantage- Subjects: Companies traded on U.S. exchanges, Industries, Investment
Info types: company info and financials, bond ratings, industry overviews and trends, stock reports, mutual fund reports
Access Tips: In Company Profiles, note numerous links to the left leading to detailed info.
Standard & Poors Research Insight (Compustat)- NOTE: Subscription cancelled as of Monday, October 31, 2011. All Compustat data must be purged from any storage devices and research utilizing Compustat data must cease effective 10/31/2011.
20 years of adjusted time series data for over 11,000 North American public companies
Access Tips: Full data available only on site in EMU computer labs. Some data available via S&P NetAdvantage.
Instruction: See Research Guide for detailed access info and instruction.
Checkpoint Accounting, Auditing, & Finance (with GASB & IASB)- GASB & IASB standards. Online manuals for accounting, auditing, and finance.
Subjects: GAAP, Government Accounting, Intl Accounting, Budgeting, Controllership, Cost Management, Internal Auditing, SEC Compliance, Finance
Info type: standards, reference books, checklists, newsletters
Access Tips: GASB and IASB can be used by only 2 users at a time. If you don’t get in, try again later.
Search instructions: 1. Login 2. Change PRACTICE AREA: to Accting, Audit, & Corp Finance 3. Use boxes to choose sources for search.
Browse instructions: 1. Login 2. Choose TABLE OF CONTENTS tab (ignore submenu & wait for page to load) 3. Click or expand on items under Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance Library
Checkpoint Tax Law- Extensive database of tax law info--federal, state, and international
Info type: tax codes, regulations, cases, rulings, tax treaties, government documents, legal citator, analytical materials, tax journals, newsletters, tax alerts, financial calculators.
Search Instruction: Online Training Modules
(Training shows some content not in our subscription--EMU has Tax Law content only. Also login & customization features are not relevant to university subscriptions.)
RMA eStatement Studies- Financial ratio benchmark data from RMA Annual Statement Studies (was Robert Morris)
Subjects: Industry Ratios, Benchmark Statistics, Industry Default Probabilities, Cash Flow Measures, Balance Sheet Analysis, Risk Measures
Info type: statistics
Access Info: If your industry isn't covered by RMA, try these sources of industry ratios.
Instruction: RMA Webseminar
Wall Street Journal via Factiva- Read today’s Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.
Subjects: Business, News, Politics
Info type: newspaper articles
Access Tips: Use News Pages tab. Up to 6 users at a time. If you don’t get in, try again later. You can also use ABI/INFORM to search the WSJ.
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Business Insights: Essentials- Subjects: Business, Company Information, Industry Information
Info type: company histories, industry overviews, SWOT analyses, market share info, reference sources, professional articles
Access Tips: Also available via http://mel.org/
- titles included
Factiva- Large global news database covers all countries
Subjects: news, business, company information
Info type: news articles, news wires, television and radio transcripts, magazines, trade journals, company financials, investment information, articles in many languages
Access Tips: Up to 6 users at a time. If you don’t get in, try again later.
Won't work with older browsers such as IE6.
Use Companies/Markets tab then Companies link for international company info.
Search Instruction: Top 10 Reasons to Love Factiva
Google Scholar- Search for scholarly materials
Subjects: Covers most subjects
Info type: scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, cited sources
Access Tips: Use link above to get Findtext+ links. Also free at http://scholar.google.com/
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
General BusinessFile- Subjects: Business
Info type: news articles, professional articles, scholarly articles, investment reports
Access Tips: Also available via http://mel.org/
- titles included
Social Sciences Citation Index- Search for articles in Social Science journals and see which articles cite an article
Subjects: Social Sciences, Psychology, Business
Info type: scholarly articles, conference papers
Search Instruction: Cited Reference Searching
- titles included
ScienceDirect - Elsevier- Journals from the publisher Elsevier
Subjects: Various, including Physical Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Info Technology, Social Sciences, Business, Linguistics
Info type: scholarly articles
Directory of Open Access Journals- Scholarly journals that are free on the web
Subjects: Many subjects
Info type: scholarly journals
Access Tips: This site can also be accessed at http://www.doaj.org/
- titles included
WorldCat.org- Search for materials in libraries worldwide. Also tools for creating lists & bibliographies.
Info type: book info, library holdings
Access Tips: Also free on the web at http://www.worldcat.org
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