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Jessie Ball duPont Library
Business 216: Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting
A guide to the basic information resources on fundamentals of managerial accounting, Business 216.
MarketLine provides company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. Includes company SWOTs, company overviews, industry profiles, case studies, financial deals, country analysis, news, and a statistics database covering over half a million data points for 215 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings. The database allows keyword and Boolean searching of the full-text of the reports, which are in PDF format, as well as the thousands of news and commentary items, which are in text format. The market data and the economic indicators may be downloaded for spreadsheet analysis.
Among other things, the ICPSR "maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields." In many cases the files contain raw data that require a statistical tool for use.
Provides company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. Includes company SWOTs, company overviews, industry profiles, case studies, financial deals, country analysis, news, and a statistics database covering over half a million data points for 215 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings. The database allows keyword and Boolean searching of the full-text of the reports, which are in PDF format, as well as the thousands of news and commentary items, which are in text format. The market data and the economic indicators may be downloaded for spreadsheet analysis.
This growing collection currently includes:
COMPANY CONTENT
• 100,000+ Company Profiles including over 12000 SWOT analyses
• 420+ Case Studies
• Over 50,000 new Financial Deals, and 78,000 Company News stories added annually
INDUSTRY CONTENT
6,000+ Industry Profiles featuring Five Forces Analysis and five year forecasts
COUNTRY CONTENT
110 Country Profiles and 80+ City Profiles featuring PESTLE and PEST analyses
DATABASES
• Country Statistics - Data and forecasts including detailed coverage of consumer demographics, incomes, and expenditures. Key indicator forecasts include GDP, inflation, exchange rates, investment, trade, population, and labor market.
• City Statistics - Data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 1950 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, and South & Central America.
• Market Data Analytics - A unique online information service providing comprehensive data across global food, drinks personal care household products, pet care, news and magazine and tobacco markets.
• Company Analysis Tools – Use Financial Deals Tracker, Company Prospector, Investment & Advisory Prospector, and Company Report Generator to assess macro trends of industries and understand company & market performance.
Statista is a platform of data and statistics on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Statista gathers data from a wide variety of government and commercial sources and presents it in an easy to search interface. Data can be exported to Excel and charts can be exported as picture files or directly into PowerPoint. Data sources are categorized into industries, broad topics, countries, and digital markets.
Contains statistical data for over 800 development indicators and time series data from 1960, for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Offers many useful features: results can be scaled, mapped, and charted; the mapping function allows users to see the results in a world map that can be resized and zoomed to the country level; data can be exported in standard formats such as Excel. 1960 to present.
Information is gathered by the Development Data Group of the World Bank. Information about their methods of data collection can be found here: http://go.worldbank.org/K2XOMZ5DC0
Statistical Abstract of the US
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is often the best place to begin when searching for data on nearly any topic pertaining to or within the US. It can be used to find data and it can be used as an index to identify sources of data to explore further. The link above will direct you to the Statistical Abstract site, or you can search it using the box just below.
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