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with a reference librarian
We can help you:
Find or narrow a paper topic,
locate appropriate sources,
and more.
Email refdesk@augsburg.edu for an appointment
Librarian
Stewart Van Cleve
he/him
Contact:
612-330-1014
Subjects: Humanities and Fine Arts, Science and Mathematics
What's on this Page?
- Find information about specific companies.
- Find information about different industries.
- Find various financial, economic, and statistical data.
- Find books and articles about Finance topics.
Find Data and Statistics
RMA Annual Statement StudiesCall Number: Reference HF5681.B2 R63Also called Financial Ratio Benchmarks, this once-a-year publication from Risk Management Associates provides information drawn from 244,000 company financial statements, divided into 19 ratios and organized by NAICS number.Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios by
Call Number: Reference HF5681.R25 I525Organized by SIC number. Use it to find out, for example, the average assets of a typical brewery (SIC 2082) in a given year. Augsburg has this annual publication going back to the 1980s.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (2015) by Call Number: HF5681.R25 T68 2015
- U.S. Census BureauUseful for finding NAICS codes.
Find Books and Articles
- ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window(Formerly ABI/Inform) Covers thousands of business publications, most of them in full-text. Subject coverage includes business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
References and full-text articles from top journals covering a variety of business disciplines such as accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, management information systems, and operations management.
Specific Journals to look at for Finance Articles
- The Economist
- Financial Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Forbes
- Barron's
- US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Prominent U.S. papers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. It's also a good place to look for Star Tribune articles, with archives from 1986. Use the advanced search tab to limit to particular titles or dates.