MBA 231-1: Corporate Financial Management

The Business Library has a large collection of books on accounting topcs, most of them around the HF5625 call number range.  Use the OskiCat catalog to search for books by keyword, subject heading, author, title, and more.

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In addition to the databases below, also find ratio data for small companies:

Financial Studies of the Small Business
Financial Research Associates. Annual (ends in 2006).
Data selected from over 30,000 financial statements of small firms, contributed by over 1,500 independent CPA firms nationwide. Covers firms with total capitalization under $1 million.
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Also note that Yahoo Finance calculates some ratios and is freely available.

• Mergent Online
  Provides financial information on U.S.and international companies.
  
• Factiva
  Ratio Comparison Reports show key financial ratios for a company compared against industry, sector and S&P 500 Index aggregate ratios. To access Ratio comparison Reports, click on the Companies/Markets tab at the top of the homepage, then click on Company at the top of the page. Search for a company, then click Reports on the left-hand side of the page. Finally, under the drop-down menu for reports, click on Ratio Comparison Report.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  Find a downloadable table showing key ratios for the past few years. To access ratios, click on the Business tab at the top of the Lexis homepage. Search for a company then click Financial Information in the Reports menu on the left-hand side of the page
  
• Value Line Research Center
  Use Value Line to retrieve a one-sheet company analysis that includes key ratios.
  

• Mergent Online
  Provides financial information on U.S.and international companies. Look up companies' performance for the past years. Use data from SEC disclosures to create custom tables.
  
• Thomson Research Investext
  Analyst reports from investment banks. Note: works best with Internet Explorer.
  
• Value Line Research Center
  Full access to a classic source for investment information. Incluedes several Value Line products:the Investment Survey; Mutual Fund Survey; Daily Options Survey; and more.
  
• Mergent WebReports (Moody's Online Manuals)
  Online access to Moody's Manuals (old name) from 1909 including the current weekly updates to Mergent Manuals (new name).
  

This is not a comprehensive list of economic data sources available at UC Berkeley, but rather a sampling.

To explore the full range of online economic data sources, visit the Economics subject page.

• EconLit
  The most comprehensive index to scholarly journal articles in economics.
  
• Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
  Provides indicators in daily, monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies for developing and high-income countries.
  
• Global Financial Data (GFD)
  Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for over 150 countries.
  
• Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS)
  Comprehensive statistics and quantitative facts on US history.
  
• ProQuest Statistical Insight
  Provides access to indexing and statistical tables from three key sources: American Statistics Index (ASI; 1973-present), Statistics Reference Index (SRI; 1980-present), and Index to International Statistics (IIS; 1983-present).
  
• Proquest Statistical Datasets
  Provides fast and easy one-stop shopping to more than 5.3 billion (and growing) data points from licensed and public domain datasets.
  
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  Provides access to NBER research results through the working paper series.
  
• OECD iLibrary
  Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  
• UNdata
  Wide range of economic, social, cultural, and demographic indicators from various United Nations agencies.
  

Global Financial Data

• US stock prices
• US and worldwide macroeconomic data
• Very long historical series

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)

• Company financials from COMPUSTAT
• Stock prices from CRSP
• Stock ownership from Thomson Reuters
• Economic data from Global Insight
• Earnings estimates from I/B/E/S
• Many ways to manipulate data, using SPSS or UNIX-type commands
• Use MFE login for remote access and expert commands

Datastream

• Huge database of international, historical data
• Stocks and bonds, indexes, macroeconomic data, options, futures, exchange rates, and more
• Confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

SDC

• Mergers & acquisitions and new issuances of stocks and bonds, going back to the early 1980's
• Extremely confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

These books contain security price information and/or dividend information.

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• CCH Capital Changes Reports
  Contains the complete capital change histories of over 58,000 corporations.
  
• Global Financial Data (GFD)
  Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for over 150 countries.
  

Recent annual reports and financial disclosure information for public companies is readily available on the web at sites such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.  For Security and Exchange Commission-required filings, including 10Ks and 10Qs, see the SEC's EDGAR database for free access to all SEC filings.

Disclosures and annual reports not available through these sites can be accessed either by using one of the databases below (1994-present, with some historical coverage available through Proquest Historical Annual Reports) or by accessing the microfiche collection in the Business Library (pre-1995).

For more information about available company information resources, please see Business Library Subject Guide #4, Company Information.

• Mergent Online
  Mergent -- Company profiles, financial statements, annual reports and SEC filings for public companies for the past 15 years. More info.
  
• Factiva
  Factiva -- Company profiles, news, trade publications, and much, much more. More info.
  
• Business and Industry Database
  RDS Business and Industry -- use this to search trade journals for news, rankings, statistics, etc. More info.
  
• Historical Annual Reports
  Includes over 800 companies' annual reports available as searchable pdf images. Includes financial data, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, and more.
  
• Value Line Research Center
  Full access to investment information by way of several Value Line products including: the Investment Survey; Mutual Fund Survey; Daily Options Survey; and more.
  

• Hoover's Online
  Over 1,800 company profiles and industry descriptions.
  
• VentureXpert
  A database of private equity and venture capital deals, including details on firms, funds, and portfolio companies. Works best with Internet Explorer
  
• Reference USA
  Includes basic profiles of over 13 million U.S. companies.
  

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