Business Resources on the Web    Revised 12/04/08
Prepared by Naomi Schwer Bricker, Reference Librarian; Adjunct Assistant Professor
 

Annual Report Service     
http://www.annualreportservice.com
Download reports in PDF format or order hard copy. Quick link to current NYSE information for many companies. Free registration required to access most information. Affiliated with Public Register's Annual Report Service (http://www.prars.com) and Corporate Window (http://www.corporatewindow.com).

Annual Reports Service/World Investor Link   
http://www.wilink.com/investors/ars.aspx
Register to access free annual or quarterly reports in PDF format. Service provided by PrecisionIR but you must access the info through one of dozens of “channel partner” sites, such as:

Barchart.com     
http://www.barchart.com
Use “market information” section to start the free search service. Provides recent stock price quotes plus historical data in various formats, and analysts’ buy/sell/hold recommendations.

Carol : Company Annual Reports On-Line    
http://www.carol.co.uk
US and European company annual report links. Using headings such as ‘Annual report’ ‘Balance sheet’, ‘and ‘Multimedia news’, links directly to appropriate page of company’s investor relations or similar web page.  Search by company name, industry sector, region (‘Europe’ or ‘USA) and/or stock exchange. Free, but must register first for access.

Corporate Reports Online
http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/corprep/help?type=overview
Very small collection of historic U.S. annual reports from 1800-1955, collected and digitized (into PDF format) by the Lippincott Library at the University of Pennsylvania. Full text searchable. Includes such companies as Jantzen Knitting Mills, Julius Kayser & Co (predecessor to Kayser Roth) Melville Shoe Corporation (Thom McAn) Montgomery Ward , Sears Roebuck, and Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

EDGAR Database   
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Documents filed by publicly-held companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including 10K reports ("annual report" information). Note that EDGAR can also be accessed through other free interfaces such as SEC Info http://www.secinfo.com  (free registration required) run by outside companies.

Historical Stock Quotes and Charts
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical
Prices and charts available as far back as 1970. Part of the larger Marketwatch site.

Investorguide.com    
http://www.investorguide.com
A metasearch guide to current and historical stock quotes, company profiles, industry analysis, and news and discussion boards, from multiple investment sites. Very straightforward design and easy to use.

IRIN Annual Report Resource Center      
http://www.irin.com
Annual report links, plus balance sheet and stock quotes courtesy of Barchart.com (see above).

Merrill Lynch Guide to Understanding Financial Reports (2003)
http://www.ml.com/media/14069.pdf
An older version, How to Read a Financial Report (2000) still useful, is available at http://philanthropy.ml.com/ipo/resources/pdf/howtoreadfinreport.pdf

Quote.com   
http://www.quote.com
Financial news headlines, stock price quotes, and comparisons among companies in an industry. More detail available to paid subscribers.

Yahoo Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com
Quick stock price lookup and news, with option to see historical price data once you have entered company name or ticker symbol. Creates chart or spreadsheet documenting a stock’s price fluctuations over any specified period of time going back as far as July 1986. Information for each date includes: open, high, low, close, volume, and “adjusted close” prices.

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BusinessDictionary.com
http://www.businessdictionary.com
20,000+ searchable terms, also browsable  by subject areas (e.g. "inventory control & storage"). Sister site to InvestorWords.

Business Glossaries    
http://bizglossaries.tripod.com
Links to, and brief annotations about, many business subject-specific topics such as 'advertising’,  ‘marketing’ , ‘trade’,  and  ‘retailing’. Note that this site is hosted on a commercial Internet Service Provider, and many pop-up ads might interfere with viewing the site.

Campbell A Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary    
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm
Alphabetical list of over 8000 terms, many cross referenced, complied by a professor of business at Duke University. Also available in part at the websites of  
Bloomberg    http://www.bloomberg.com/analysis/glossary/bfglosa.htm  and
The New York Times  http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm .

Financial Glossary        
http://tradition.axone.ch
Multilingual dictionary with definitions and translations to/from English, French, Italian and German.

Investopedia.com: Financial Dictionary  
http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary
Dictionary covers over 3000 business terms and acronyms with examples of their usage and explanations of business implications of events (“Investopedia says…”). “Tutorials” and “articles” cover topics such as stock options, economic indicators, and IPOs in more detail.

InvestorWords - Investing Glossary    
http://www.investorwords.com
Includes over 6000 business and investing terms, with many links between terms. Arranged alphabetically, but also searchable and divided up into subject areas. Affiliated with Investorguide.com and BusinessDictionary.com.

WashingtonPost.com: Business Glossary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/glossary/index.html
Information culled from the websites of US government agencies and industry specialists. Word search plus ability to search the full text of the definitions. Brief registration required to access site.

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About.com : Business & Finance
http://about.com/business
Expert selected sites. See also http://stocks.about.com and http://businessmajors.about.com

Business Navigator  
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/business-navigator.html
Streamlined list of links to stock exchanges, investment research sites, general and business news, and government agencies. Designed for, and maintained by, New York Times staffers.

CEOExpress     
http://www.ceoexpress.com
No–frills start page links to dozens of business and trade publications’ sites. “CEOX Stock Quotes" search provides quick access to data from Barchart.com.

CNN/Money  
http://money.cnn.com
Timely news, extensive market statistics, small business and personal finance information, from a joint venture of two major media sources.

Fuld & Company: The Internet Intelligence Index    
http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html
Good links from “a competitive intelligence consulting firm”. Nicely divided into topics by industry and business function. Some categories listings are annotated.

Marketwatch
http://www.marketwatch.com
Business headlines, stock price charts, analysts’ reports, and “industry analyzer” which compares firms within a Dow Jones determined industry (e.g. “clothing and fabrics” or “cosmetics”).

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