Databases
- Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios
- This Dun & Bradstreet database provides 14 key business ratios for over 800 lines of business with a one or three year set of solvency, efficiency or profitability ratios. In addition, data can be exported directly into EXCEL for further analysis and the creation of charts and graphs.
- RIA Checkpoint
- Provides access to a wide array of primary source materials for accounting and tax law, including the Federal Tax Code and Regulations, Tax Court case law, Internal Revenue rulings, publications and bulletins. Information can be retrieved via keyword searching, as well as by case name, case citaiton and ruling citation. Also provides the text of proposed, enacted and confirmed legislation, as well as a tax form/line finder tool, tax watch publications and the USTR code section. Productivity tools are available for calculations and comparative analyses for personal, business and investment options.
- Stat-USA http://www.stat-usa.gov/
- See librarian for password
Guidebooks and Handbooks
Business and the Environment: a Resource Guide. REF HD69.P6P46 1992
Business ethics : a reference handbook REF HF5387 .D54 1998
Directory of business information resources HF54.52.U5 D57 2002
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources REF DESK HF 5353.E52 latest ed. only
Guide to Economic Indicators. REF HC103.F9 1994
Handbook of Key Economic Indicators REF HC 103.R64 1994
International Trade Sources: a Research Guide. REF HF1379.S37 1997
Small Business Profiles: a Guide to Today's Top Opportunities for Entrepreneurs.
REF PN6084.B87E93 1994
New Business Handbook / Washington State Dept. of Revenue. DOCS WA 336.2 R32 new b1 1994
Small Business Sourcebook REF HD2346.U5566 1996
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics REF HF5387.B55 1997
Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia. REF HB3711.B936 1997
Dictionary of accounting terms REF HF5621 .S54 2000
Dictionary of business terms REF HF1001 .F78 2000
Dictionary of international investment terms REF HG3880 .S548 2001
Encyclopedia of African American Business History
REF HD 2344.5.U6.E53 1999
Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. REF HC102.E53 1988
Encyclopedia of Business (2 vols.) REF HF1001.E466 1995b
Encyclopedia of busine$$ and finance REF HF1001 .E467 2001
Every Manager's Guide to Business Processes: a Glossary of Key Terms & Concepts for Today's
Business Leader. STACKS HD30.2.K43 1994
Language of Small Business: a Complete Dictionary of Small Business Terms. REF PE1479.B87T73 1994
New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance REF HG151.N48 1992
New Palgrave: a Dictionary of Economics. REF HB 61.N49 1987
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. REF K487.E3.N49 1998
Understanding American Business Jargon: A Dictionary REF HF1001F65 1997
Who's Who in Economics: a Biographical Dictionary … 1700-1986. REF HB76.W47 1986
Statistical Sources
Business Statistics (title changed from Survey of Current Business, Statistical
Supplement to the Survey of Current Business). DOCS REF US C 59.11/3, latest edition only
Earlier editions., 1940-, in DOCS.
Guide to Foreign Trade Statistics. DOCS REF US C3.6/2F 76, latest edition only.
Handbook of US Labor Statistics REF HD8051.A63
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. REF HA 202.B87 1975
Statistical Abstract of the United States DOC REF DESK C 3.134: latest edition only
Company Information
Brands and Their Companies REF T223.V4.A22 latest edition only.
Directory of Corporate Affiliations REF HG 4057.A217, latest edition only.
D & B regional business directory. Washington area. REF HF5065.W2 D86
Hoover's Handbook of American Business REF HF 5035.H66 latest edition only.
Hoover's handbook of private companies REF HD38.15 .B85 2002
Million Dollar Directory. REF HC 102.D8, latest edition only.
National Directory of Minority-Owned Businesses REF HD2346.U5.N38 1999
Principal International Businesses REF F 54.U5P74, latest edition only.
Standard and Poor's Standard Corporate Descriptions. REF HG 4057.A42 latest only
Thomas Register. REF T 12.T6, latest edition only.
Value Line Investment Survey REF HG 4501.V26, latest edition only
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private Companies REF HG 4057.A575 latest only
Washington business-to-business sales & marketing directory REF HG3880 .S548 2001
Industry Information
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios. REF HF 5681.R25T68, 1981/82-present.
Also available on CD-ROM: REF CD-ROM HF5681.R25.T68 31ST edition
Encyclopedia of Associations. REF AS 22.E5 , latest edition only.
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
This Dun & Bradstreet database provides 14 key business ratios for over 800 lines of business with a one or three year set of solvency, efficiency or profitability ratios. In addition, data can be exported directly into EXCEL for further analysis and the creation of charts and graphs.
Also in paper at REF HF5681.R25 (I551 or I533 or I561 or I573 for each
sub-subject), 1992/93-present.
Inside U.S. Business: a Concise Encyclopedia of Leading Industries. REF AC106.8.M337 1991
Robert Morris Associates. Statement Studies. REF HF 5681.B2R6, 1982-present
Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys. REF HC 106.6.S74 , latest 5 years only.
Earlier years, 1980-, located at PER.
U.S. Global Trade Outlook, REF HC 101.U54 , 1995/2000-present.
(Formerly: U.S. Industrial Outlook. REF HC 101.U54 , 1976-1994.)