Business and Industry Sources

Annual Report Service
Over 2200 online annual reports. Free, but log in required.

BEOnline
Historical, and current investment charting and research.

Better Business Bureau Web Server
Information on activities of the Better Business Bureau. Includes a directory of member agencies, by state, as well as information about their programs. You can also go directly to the Better Business Bureau of Eastern MA, Maine, and Vermont to search for reliability reports on businesses and charities in these areas.

Big Charts
Historical, and current investment charting and research.

BizOffice
Small and Home-Based Business Resources.

BizStats: Free Business Statistics
National business statistics, including current ratios, the CPI, and employee productivity.

CEO Express
Business and news-related links.

Companies Online
Information on 75,000+ companies, with links to websites (if available). From Dun & Bradstreet in cooperation with Lycos.

Consumer Information Center
From the Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO: consumer booklets (many full text) and information.

Consumer Law Page
Numerous brochures and articles on legal topics (mortgages, banking, investing, automobiles, etc.) of interest to consumers.

CorpTech Directory of Technology Companies
Search for names, addresses, and brief financial data on 45,000+ technology companies. (Some services here are fee-based.)

Country Sector Reports
"Valuable information on some of the US' most important export markets." Arranged by country.

Current Industrial Reports
Updates on various industries (mainly manufacturing), from the Census Bureau.

EDGAR: Filings with the SEC
EDGAR site - financial statements that companies filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. 1994 - present only.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
Easy access to federal economic indicators: income, employment, prices, transportation, and more.

Emerging Markets Information Service
Aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, and etc.

Financial Accounting Standards Board
The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of financial information.

Foreign Currency Converter
Currency conversions for any date from 1/1/1990 to the present, for most world currencies. Updated daily.

FRASER
The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research provides digital access to documents on banking and business statistics.

Global Business & fiance resources
Provides links to international business and finance-related resources including work on multinational firms, international business practices, financial data and financial information. Academic links are only for restricted organizations.

Glossary of Financial Terms
Definitions of financial terms. Includes directory information where applicable.

Government Accounting Standards Board
The mission of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting that will result in useful information for users of financial reports and guide and educate the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial reports.

GSI Public Company Websites
Internet sites for publicly-owned companies.

GuideStar
Information for researchers on non-profit businesses. Free registration allows basic searching.

Guide to Financials
A basic introduction to reading financial statements.

Hoover's Online
A database of financial information on over 9,000 public and private companies. In addition, a register of corporate home pages links you directly with individual companies' presence on the Web.

Industry Information Resources
A resource covers more than 250 industries. Individual pages for each of these industries list resources available from trade associations, industry publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, financial benchmarking, compensation surveys, and valuation resources. Each entry in a category contains the name of the source organization, the name of the particular resource, a hyperlink to the source organization website, a brief description of the resource, and a description of any information that is provided free online.

Industry Research Desk
Provides free sources to perform on-line industry, market, business, company, and manufacturing process research with the tools and procedures.

ISO 14000 Information Center
Provides information on what to expect during the audit process and how to successfully plan and strategize to become registered to ISO14001. Also provides assistance in sustaining existing program to drive continual improvement beyond registration.

International Trade Centre
Includes free conutry-level trade information which can be readily accessed from the Countries section of the home page. Statistics or rankings are also provided.

ISO 14000 Sites
Internet sites related to ISO 14000 and sustainability.

IndustryNET
Profiles of numerous companies from the manufacturing industry - searchable by type of product manufactured.

Industry Research Desk
On-line industry, market, business, company, and manufacturing process research.

Internet Patent Search System
Patent database searchable by classification or category. Includes abstracts.

Investor Relations Information Network
"The Worldwide Data Bank of Annual Reports." Annual reports online, in PDF format. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed to view these files.

MarketingPower.com
Supplies professionals with association news, membership information, marketing information, products and services offered by vendors, as well as job notices and career guides to help them succeed.

MassBedrock
This page is designed by business librarians to provide information about business and economic development in the State of Massachusetts.

Mortgage Calculator
Type in your income and current bank interest rate, and this program will calculate how much of a mortgage you can afford.

NAICS and SIC Correspondence Tables
A table to help you determine the North American Industrial Classification System code if you know a company's SIC code, or vice versa. Users may also search by subject.

Networth Mutual Fund Database
Profiles (from Morningstar) of over 5,000 mutual funds are available here in this searchable database. Data includes the past performance of the funds (year-to-date; past 3 years; past 5 years, etc.), information on what the funds invest in, and graphs of funds' net asset value (NAV) over the past few months. Please register to obtain a username and password (free of charge).

Aviation Science: Research Sites
SEDAR
Similar to the USA's EDGAR database, but for Canadian public companies: publicly accessible information and documents filed with the securities commissions by Canadian public companies and mutual funds as well as related third parties.

Strategis: Canadian Corporate Information
Information about corporations throughout Canada.

Thomas Register Home Page
Searchable access to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Find out which companies manufacture certain products. Please register to obtain a username and password (free of charge).

US Business Advisor
Links to government information and other topics useful for businesses. Answers to commonly-asked questions that businesses have about the federal government.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
This website focuses on laws and rules for protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets. It also provides quick links to much of the information to accountants, broker-dealers, EDGAR filers, founds and advisers, municipal markets, and small businesses.

Virtual International Business & Economic Sources (VIBES)
A meta-index to numerous Internet sources covering international business: topics include agriculture, banking, marketing, country information, stock rates, petroleum, trade issues, and statistics.

Last Modified: November 2, 2009