Business and Economics Library

IBIS World is the latest addition to BYU’s collection for industry research.  This user-friendly database contains in-depth reports on over 700 U.S. industries, from soybean farming to video games.  Market size, market share, key competitors, barriers to entry, segmentation, industry performance and outlook.  Most reports are updated quarterly and can be exported as PDFs.

Come to the Business Research Clinic in TNRB 240 on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5pm, or Thursday, Oct. 30, 11am for a hands-on introduction to IBIS World and other sources of industry research.

The Business Library is pleased to announce our latest addition.  ProQuest Entrepreneurship is an innovative attempt to meet the practical needs of entrepreneurs.  In addition to news and journal articles, content includes reports, case studies, business plans, and video interviews.  Much of this content comes from universities like Thunderbird, Cornell, and even BYU.

This database is new and content is still being added.  You can try it out by clicking here.

We’re experimenting with video tutorials.  Here are a couple that demonstrate how to access The Wall Street Journal:

Historic Wall Street Journal (1889-1991):
http://screencast.com/t/5QSL6ll8zVp

Current Wall Street Journal (1985-today):
http://screencast.com/t/CM9o07l26

The ProQuest historical archive of The Wall Street Journal begins with the first issue, July 8, 1889, and runs until December 30, 1991.  Every page of every issue is available as a PDF scan and the full text is searchable.

To access this archive, click here.  Other newspaper archives available in ProQuest include:

• The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1994)
• The Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
• The New York Times (1851-2004)

More recent issues of The Wall Street Journal can be accessed from either ProQuest or Factiva.

Global Road Warrior is the ultimate business travel guide, providing overviews of the culture and society of 175 nations.  Topics include:

• Gift Giving • Holidays • Religion • Punctuality • Greetings • Etiquette • Business Ethics • Attire • Women in Business • Communication • Transportation • Immunization • Security • Maps • Currency •

GRW is an excellent source for practical travel information and intercultural communication.  The BYU Library is pleased to announce this new resource.  Try it here.

We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded our MEGI Bloomberg terminal. As you can see, we have upgraded from one monitor to two for better organization and viewing capabilities, upgraded our keyboard to a new, sleek-looking Bloomberg Keyboard, and we even upgraded the computer to make the Bloomberg database run much faster and smoother than before. This terminal is also set up to download data to Excel. Feel free to come check it out.

The library is pleased to announce Mint Global, from Bureau van Dijk.  Mint offers information on 40 million companies worldwide, including annual statements, M&A news, competitive analysis, and ownership information.  The search interface is both easy to use and sophisticated.

Whether you want to compare a company’s financial performance to its peers, create and download a list of companies in a certain industry for a given country, or find out who owns whom, Mint Global is your first stop.

Note: This database does require you to enable pop-ups in your internet browser.

A comprehensive database of accounting and auditing information. The standards section provides access to the full text of all current authoritative accounting and auditing standards from the AICPA, SEC, PCAOB, GAO, OBM and IASB. The database also includes secondary analysis from the Big Four accounting firms and the Miller Guides. All the content is cross-referenced. Updated daily. Available from the Accounting Subject Page.

We now have access to RMA’s Annual Statement Studies online.  These are the only source of composite performance metrics derived directly from the financial statements of financial institutions’ borrowers and prospects.

The Financial Ratio Benchmarks Data (FRB) provides common-sized fundamentals and norms for industries, including liquidity, coverage, leverage, and operating ratios.  The Industry Default Probability Data (IDP) uses cash flow measures and Moody’s KMV’s RiskCalc to project the Expected Default Frequency (EDF) for an industry.

This data stretches back five years and can be examined on a national or regional basis.  It is also broken up by the size of firms within an industry, and everything can be exported to Excel.

If you need to know how a firm’s cash balance and current ratio compare to the rest of its industry, and how likely firms in the industry are to default on debt, this is the database for you.  It’s listed on our pages as eStatement Studies (RMA).

The library has obtained a license to the International Monetary Fund’s online database of International Financial Statistics, which provides interactive access to data from 1945 to the present.  Data series for individual nations cover GDP, imports, exports, employment, and many other economic indicators and national accounts.  Additional data sets include consumer price indices worldwide, international interest rate data, and commodity price data.  Statistics are downloadable to Excel, and pdf scans of the printed versions are also available.

You can access the IMF International Financial Statistics here. Note: you must enable pop-ups on your internet browser.