Finance

• Business & Company Resource Center [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Covers 300,000 companies. Includes company profiles, industry rankings, marketing information, products, brands, investment ratings, financial ratios, financial statements, market size, industries by SIC, directory information, and more.
       Hint: do a Company Search.  Find your public company and click Financials to get the 10K Report.  To get the analysts' reports, click Investment Reports.

• Business Research Databases (COB access only)
  The Libraries provide substantial financial support for research databases that are made available through the College of Business. This link leads to information about those databases and how to access them. The databases include CRSP, Compustat, Research Insight, TAQ, WRDS. If you have questions about WRDS access, please see Cengiz Capan, Department of ITDS.
       Compustat-related titles:
       - Bank Compustat
       - Compustat Full University Subscription
       - Compustat North American Data
       - CRSP/COMPUSTAT merged database
       WRDS-related titles:
       - Standard and Poor’s Compustat
       - CRSP/Compustat Merged Database
       - Center for Research in Security Prices    
       - New York Stock Exchange TAQ
       - Thomson Financial 

• College of Business Labs, Hours and Locations:
  COB Tutor Labs
  http://www.cob.unt.edu/lab/tutor.php
  COB Computer Labs / Find a Lab
  http://www.cob.unt.edu/lab/
  COB Virtual Lab / Lab Hours & Closings
  http://www.cob.unt.edu/lab/virtuallab.php
  COB Information & Technologies Learning Center
  http://www.cob.unt.edu/ciltc/
  

• Compustat (Standard & Poor's) See Business Research Databases (COB access only)
  

• Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Coverage: 305,000 U.S. businesses. Company information includes industry information by SIC, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives, subsidiaries, corporate family tree.

• LexisNexis Academic  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  How to find public company filings on LexisNexis Academic:
  Once in LexisNexis Academic, click on the BUSINESS tab to find company reports.   Then type in the company's name or ticker.  Then click SEARCH.  Once you pull up the company's "SNAPSHOT," click FINANCIAL INFORMATION on the side menu.

• Million Dollar Directory / Dun & Bradstreet
  This five-volume directory covers 160,000 leading U.S. public and private companies. Also included are domestic subsidiaries of foreign corporations.
       Vols. 1-3 list these businesses alphabetically.
       Vol. 4 is a cross-reference index by location
       Vol. 5 is a cross-reference index by industry
       (arranged by SIC code numbers).
  Location: HF5035.M531 [Willis Library, Government Documents / Business Reference and the Dallas Campus Library]
  Also available online through the UNT Libraries' subscription to the Million Dollar Database / Dun & Bradstreet

• Morningstar Document Research  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Former name: 10-K Wizard. This database includes all electronically filed forms with the SEC. It includes EDGAR Archives through 1994. It contains pre-Edgar listing of all SEC filings to 1966. It also includes the full text of ADR filings for foreign companies, current and historical audit reports, updated company profiles, and glossy annual reports.

• Morningstar Investment Research Center [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Provides research on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and provides screening tools and data points to build portfolios. Furnishes analysts' reports to analyze funds, stocks, and ETFs. Provides current and historical performances for stock indexes, industries, sectors, and fund categories. Returns are updated daily.

• NBER Working Papers [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers: Nearly 500 are published each year. Topics: Economics, Finance, Labor Studies, Stocks and Bonds, Management, Industrial Organization, International Finance, International Trade, Productivity and Technological Change, Taxation.

• NetAdvantage - Standard and Poor's  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, and Mutual Fund Reports.

• Plunkett Research Online  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Provides in depth industry information on 29 industries ranging from Advertising to Wi-Fi. Analyzes trends, technologies, and statistics supplemented with market data and glossary.

• Research Insight (COB Computer Labs only)
  This database provides extensive coverage of the annual and quarterly financial statements and the supplemental data of publicly held companies and is designed for financial analysis. Contains 20 years of annual, 12 years of quarterly, seven years of business and geographic information. COB/Standard & Poor's Research Insight Primer for Getting Started
  

• Securities and Exchange Commission
  Includes quick EDGAR tutorial, search for company filings, descriptions of SEC forms, requesting public documents, investor information, check out brokers & advisers, new digest, publications.
  - EDGAR Tutorial
  - EDGAR FAQ
  - EDGAR Search

• Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Available through Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage, this provides listings of approximately 55,000 corporations with address, officers, stock exchange(s) on which company is traded, annual sales, number of employees, description of principal products and more. Also listing of about 70,000 individuals.
  Hint:  To find this publication on Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage, use the pull-down menu under "Publication Search" on the right side of the screen.

• Thomson One Banker (Thomson Analytics) [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Covers 65,000 active and inactive global companies. The data is drawn from IBES, Worldscope, SDC, other Thomson databases, and Edgar filings. View and update graphs and reports as you work, and create custom price charts. You can download (export) fixed fields into Excel.

This Resource will not work on Mozilla Firefox.

• Value Line Research Center [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  Make sure you are "logged on" at the top right of the Value Line home page. Once logged in, click "Subscriber Index" at the top left of the Value Line home page. This permits access to the following Value Line products:
       The Ratings & Reports section contains one-page reports on approximately 1,700 companies and more than 90 industries. Each company report contains, among other things, Value Line's Timeliness, Safety, and Technical ranks, financial and stock price forecasts for the coming 3 to 5 years, an analyst's written commentary, and much more.
       The Summary & Index contains an index of all stocks in the publication as well as many up-to-date statistics about the latest company results. It also contains a variety of stock "screens" designed to help investors identify companies with various characteristics.
       The Selection & Opinion section contains Value Line's latest economic and stock market forecasts, one-page write-ups of interesting and attractive stocks, model portfolios, and financial and stock market statistics. Please remember to log out when finished.

• Value Line Investment Survey - older issues on microfiche
  The Microforms Department, located in the Willis Library lower level, has the Value Line microfiche from 1969 to current.
  Ask at the Microforms desk, Willis Library Lower Level.

• World Development Indicators [The World Bank]
  The premiere data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 700 development indicators and time series data from 1960–2006 for 226 economies. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data export options in standard formats such as Excel.  To access the full WDI, visit the World DataBank.

• WRDS Wharton Research Data Service  [UNT Libraries' Subscription]
  For more information, please see Cengiz Capan (ITDS), the COB faculty representative for WRDS.
  The University Libraries and the College of Business worked together to fund the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) license for UNT. The UNT COB now has access to WRDS. Individual WRDS accounts are offered to UNT faculty, full-time UNT research staff, and currently-enrolled UNT Ph.D. students.  The following is the UNT/WRDS information page: http://www.cob.unt.edu/ciltc/wrds.php 
  When you receive your account, you will also receive a list of the terms of our agreement.
  
  

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