Tools

Subject Guides

Accounting

Glossaries/Dictionaries

Glossary of business terms

Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants (USA)

Glossary of terms on accounting

Oxford Dictionary of Australian Investment Terms from INVESCO

Provides concise definitions and descriptions from an Australain perspective. Includes links to other terms.

Oxford Reference Online

Economics and Business

 

Journal and Magazine articles  

Business Source Premier

Scholarly business journals and business magazines  Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

Econlit Business Source Premier

Specializes in scholarly articles in accounting, economics and finance.

Expanded Academic

A broad database with some good articles in areas such as management, leadership, entrepreneurship and marketing.

Find more journals in  e-Journal Portal

 

Newspaper Articles

Factiva

Up to five years of fulltext articles from Australian newspapers such as the Australian Financial Review and the Australian and up to twenty years for some major international newspapers

 

News and Current Event Sources

Economist

The Australian

Forbes

Australian Financial Review

Fortune

Wall Street Journal

 

 

Working Papers

Social Sciences Research Network - Accounting Working papers

Commercial site but many working papers are freely available. many abstracted journal articles are available fulltext in Business Source Premier

 

Company Annual Reports

Australian  

Australian Stock Exchange

Annual reports of listed Australian companies in acrobat pdf format from 2002 onwards

Annual Reports Online

The annual reports of all ASX listed and de-listed companies back to 1995. Also provides access to the full documentation of ASX-lodged announcements from October 1998, including prospectuses..

Fin Analysis

FinAnalysis provides a 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX

International  
Free registration. Offers  links to the financial pages of selected listed companies in Europe and the USA.
Annual reports including 10-K for companies listed in the USA. Freely available site

 

Selected Company Financials

Jobsons Online

Dun & Bradstreet's directory of companies listed on the Australian & New Zealand Stock Exchanges. Provides a concise company snapshot and selected financial's

Facilitates ranking of Fortune's largest global   corporations and their industry designations by variables such as revenues, profits, assets and stockholder equity.
Provides some reasonably detailed financial's for many thousands of companies listed on stock exchanges in several dozen countries

Fortune 500

Facilitates ranking of America's largest  corporations and their industry designations by variables such as revenues, profits, assets and stockholder equity.

 

Securities Market Statistics

FIBV-World Federation of Exchanges

Current and retrospective. Includes number of listed companies, market value, turnover and market capitalization of equities, bonds and derivatives

 

Securities Market Prices

Tradingroom

Commercial site but daily share prices and market index values for a one year period from the search date are freely available. (Australia)

Sydney Futures Exchange

Incorporates a comprehensive summary of the operation and trading activity of the SFE including daily data files and historical data files dating back to 1980. (Australia)

Yahoo Finance USA

Historical quote data from major USA and Canadian exchanges in tabular format in several timeframes: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Dividends. Coverage of price data for up to 30 years. (International: including USA, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom)