Accounting
Johanna Alexander: Business & Public Administration Library Liaison (654-3256)
| Annual Reports & Financials | Accounting Standards & Laws |
| Annual Reports for Govt. - CAFRs | Accounting Web Sites |
| AAnnual Reports from Nonprofits | Indexes, Abstracts, & Full Text Articles |
| Ratio Analysis |
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Annual Reports & Financials
Descriptions of SEC Forms and Filings
Securities & Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
EDGARSCAN by PricewaterhouseCoopers - an interface to the SEC EDGAR system. EdgarScan pulls filings from the SEC's database, parses them automatically to find key financial tables and normalizes financials to a common format that is comparable across companies.
FreeEDGAR - another interface to the SEC EDGAR system allowing full-text searching by industry number, company name, ticker symbol, and key word.
Company financial and annual report information can be found on Lexis Nexis. Once you are in the Lexis Nexis, select "Business." Go to "Company Financial" Select "Disclosure Reports" as a source. The Disclosure reports provide three years of company ratio information. At the "Business" menu you can also select "SEC Filings & Reports." Since most annual reports are lengthy, ordering a copy from the company is a good option.
Older Annual Reports on Microfiche. The Library has a large annual report collection in microfiche called the Q-File Collection. The collection includes reports from 1978 to 1996 and is located in the microform alcove on the west side of Level One. Both 10-K's, annual reports, and proxy statements are included. A paper index (binder & books marked SEC File) is found on top of the microfiche cabinets.
CAFRs (Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports) Selected CAFR's for the following states, cities, and counties are available: California; City of Livermore, CA; County of Kern, CA; and State of Wisconsin.
Annual Reports from Nonprofits
GuideStar, the Donor's Guide to Charities and Nonprofits - Read this first! Type in the words: annual reports in the Charities Search box and click find. A number of charity reports will appear. Note the icon identifying sites with full reports. Use the $ Fianancial button to retrieve financial statements.
Ratio Analysis
By Industry:
Key Business Ratios by Dun's (reference collection number: ref HF 5681 R25 D8).
Annual Statement Studies by Robert Morris Associates (reference collection number: ref HG 1507 R65).
Manufacturing USA: Industry Analyses, Statistics, and Leading Companies (reference collection number: ref HD 9721 M364 yr.) includes input and output information and ratios.
Services USA: Industry Analyses, Statistics, and Leading Companies (reference collection number: ref HD9721 S).
By Company
Mergent Online - Ratios, other financial data, and analysis of U. S. and international companies.
LexisNexis. Once you are in the LexisNexis Academic database, select "Business". Go to "Company Financial" Select "Disclosure Reports" as a source. The Disclosure reports provide three years of company ratio information.
Factiva. Select Companies/Markets.
Accounting Standards & Laws
GAAP Guide: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Current and past GAAP guides are available. (Reference Collection number: ref HF 5635 M633 yr.) Miller's GAAP Guide and other Miller accounting guides are also available through Lexis Nexis.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants materials can be found via the Stiern Library Catalog. Some materials are available from the AICPA Web site.
Financial Accounting Standards Board materials can be found in the Reference Collection under call number Ref / HF5601 F3 D5. See also Lexis Nexis.
United State Tax Reporter by Research Institue of America (Reference Collection: Law/ KF6285 U55). See also Lexis Nexis.
Federal Tax Regulations (Law Collection KF 6276.99 I5)
Accounting Web Sites
American Accounting Association
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
United States General Accounting Office
Reviewed accounting web sites
Indexes, Abstracts, & Full Text Articles
ABI/INFORM (PROQUEST)
Industry and business index, abstracts and full text.
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study.
Business Full Text (WILSON)
Industry and business index, abstracts and selective full text.
Econlit (EBSCO)
American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature, including some full-text journal articles.
Factiva
Full-text news and business articles. Factiva has replaced Dow Jones Interactive.
LexisNexis Academic Search
Full text of business, news, law, and medicine publications.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Westlaw Campus
Westlaw is West's online legal research service. It provides fast and easy access to an extensive collection of legal resources, news, business, and public records information.
