UTEP Library Research Guides: Business Plans: KEY RESOURCES TO ACCESS INFORMATION

INDUSTRY, MARKET & COMPANY INFORMATION

IBISWorld
Provides complete full-text access to a wide array of business and industry reports, including: U.S. Industry Reports (NAICS), U.S. Specialized Industry Reports, U.S. Industry Archives, Canada Industry Reports (NAICS), China Industry Reports, Global Industry Reports, U.S. Risk Ratings Reports, U.S. Risk iExpert Summaries, and U.S. Business Environment Profiles.

NOTE: UTEP's subscribed content includes U.S. NAICS Industry Report Collection, U.S. NAICS Industry iExpert Reports, and U.S. Specialized Industry Report Collection.

Mergent Online
Provides comprehensive coverage for global business and financial research. Includes current and archival data for both active and inactive U.S. and non-U.S. public companies. Detailed company information includes corporate histories, annual reports, financial statements, property, joint ventures, subsidiaries, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, executives, long-term debt, capital stock, ratios, and bond ratings. Also includes news headlines, SEC filings for U.S. public companies, and country statistical profiles. NOTE: Additional subscribed modules include: FIS Annuals (both U.S. and International), Holdings/Company Archives, Industry Report Service, Equity Pricing, Mergent Equity Research Reports, D&B Global Private Company Database, Standardized Financial Data, and Executive Biographies.
Nexis Uni
Provides access to full-text documents from a wide variety of news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Sources include: national, regional, and international newspapers; wire services; broadcast transcripts; non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law; codes and regulations; legal news; law reviews; international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; business news journals; company financial information; and SEC filings and reports as well as industry and market news. Coverage and updates vary by title and document type. See also: WestlawNext Campus Research

Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive bibliographic index for business literature worldwide, including management, marketing, management of information systems (MIS), production and operations management (POM), economics, finance, econometrics, accounting, international business, and other areas. Materials indexed include scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, books and book digests, newspapers, monographs, magazines, conference proceedings, case studies, reference works, industry reports, country economic reports, detailed company profiles and financial data, investment and market research reports, industry reports, SWOT analyses, and more. Most citations include abstracts and full text or link to full text content from other providers, based on institutional subscriptions.

DEMOGRAPHICS/CENSUS INFORMATION

INDUSTRY FINANCIAL RATIOS

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios / by Leo Troy. Chicago : CCH Incorporated, 2005- Latest Print Edition Available in the Reference Desk HF5681.R25 T68

Provides financial ratios for companies in various asset ranges by SIC code. This publication is compiled from corporate tax returns, C and S, filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. According to the publisher, IRS data are the only publicly available financial information on all active corporations. Other sources cover large or publicly held corporations.

Industry norms and key business ratios, one year. [Murray Hill, N.J.] : Dun & Bradstreet Credit Services, c1989- Latest Print Edition Available in the Reference Desk HF5681.R25 I525

This publication uses information from D&B's Financial Information base of public and private companies in over 800 lines of business to calculate industry financial norms and ratios. These norms and ratios are classified by industry and asset size so they can be used as benchmarking tools for assessing the financial strength of a company in comparison with industry peers.

RMA annual statement studies. Philadelphia : Robert Morris Associates, c1977- Latest Print Edition Available in the Reference Desk HF5681.B2 A66

Contains composite financial data on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting lines of business. Arranged by SIC code, this work makes it possible to compare one company's performance relative to other companies in the same line of business.

This publication is compiled from more than 150,000 statements of commercial bank borrowers and prospects. These financial statements come directly to RMA from member institutions, who get their data straight from the customer. Most customers are, according to the RMA, small and medium size businesses. The data is presented by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) or NAICS.

Standard & Poor's industry surveys. [New York] Standard & Poor's Corp. Latest Print Edition Available in the Reference Desk HC106.6 .S74

Industry ratios are provided at the end of each industry report.

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