Business sources - company and finance

These are from the Business Reference 101 course given by ALA.

Free online company information sources:

http://www.hoovers.com/

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/company/rankings.html

http://www.sec.gov/

Fee-based online company directories:

http://www.dnbmdd.com/mddi/

http://www.referenceusa.com/

http://www.valueline.com/

Historical stock prices:

http://www.bigcharts.com/

Sources for learning about corporate finance:

http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm

http://philanthropy.ml.com/ipo/resources/pdf/howtoreadfinreport.pdf

http://www.ibm.com/investor/tools/financials.phtml

http://www.sos.mo.gov/securities/pubs/How%20to%20Read%20A%20Prospectus_01.2005.pdf

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_20/b3732001.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_09/b3772114.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_05/b3768111.htm

Finding and using economic statistics:

http://www.nabe.com/publib/links/index.html

Also:

Which states are best for business? The 2007 state business tax climate index:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/press/show/1923.html

CEO compensation, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/04/17/06ceo-compensation_land.html

100 Smartest Companies

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1945941,00.asp

Best performing cities, 2005: Where America's jobs are created and sustained

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=478&cat=ResRep

America's most admired companies, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/index.html

Business Plans and Profiles Index

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce

http://www.bea.gov/index.html

Companies: Beware hazards of getting big too fast

http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/reprint/53/4/683.pdf

Wal-Mart's #1 Business Problem

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/bizproblems/

20 Investments: Introduction

http://www.investopedia.com/university/20_investments/