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Librarian for Finance

Barb Pietraszewski
bpietra@umich.edu

General Finance Resources

Articles, News, Reports

ABI/Inform Global
Includes articles from scholarly and popular press resources.

Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles, rankings, investment reports, company histories, periodical articles.

Factiva
Company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as full text articles in 6,000 trade publications, newspapers, newswires and magazines.

Wall Street Transcript
Includes qualitative information on most market sectors plus industry/company roundtable focus interviews, also interviews with CEOs, money managers and analysts.

ISI Emerging Markets
News, economic statistics, market quotes and analyst reports on countries, companies, and industries in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Australia.

World Bank E-Library
This is a collection of over 4,000 World Bank publications, including Policy Research Working Papers. Topics covered include: Agriculture and Rural Development; Business Procurement; Commodities, Pricing, and Trade; Banking, Finance, and Investment.

Investext Plus
This source covers thousands of investment, company and industry analyst reports in full text format from over 500 brokers worldwide. In general, reports cover 1982 to present.

Dictionaries

Standard & Poor's Dictionary of Financial Terms. Print. (Reference HG 151 .M88)

Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations. Print. (Reference HG 151.3 P34)

Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms. Print. (Reference HG 151 .D69)

Encyclopedia of Finance. Print. (Reference HG 151 .E625)

Directories

Directory of Obsolete Securities. Print. (HG 4961 .D62)

The Corporate Finance Sourcebook. Print. (HG 4057 .A2 C82)
Guide to major capital investment resources and financial services. Topics range from venture capital firms to major private lenders.

America's Corporate Finance Directory. Print. (HG 4057 .A2 C78)
Information on the financial functions of major corporations. Gives brief financial and pension data, identifies financial officers, lists outside source firms.

Other Reference Sources

International Financial Statistics Yearbook. Print. (HG 3881 .I5868)
This source covers worldwide recent and historical monetary statistics, arranged by country. Related sources include International Financial Statistics database.

Thorndike Encyclopedia of Banking and Financial Tables. Print. (Reference HG 1626 .T481)
Source includes tables such as present worth of annual income, price inflation and deflation, savings at various interest rates.

Capital Changes Reporter. Print. (Reference KF 1428 .A6 C24)
Complete capital change histories of thousands of companies.

Financial Services Fact Book. Print. (HG 181. F4955)
Graphs and charts on such areas as banking, finance companies, securities, mortgage financing.

Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation Yearbook. Print. (HG 4915 .S86)
Current and historical market results, often from 1926.

Global Development Finance. Print. (HJ 8011 .W93)
Source covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates and key debt ratios as well as long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections for 135 countries.

Global Stock Markets Factbook. Print. (HG 5993 .E53)
Data relating to the performance and characteristics of world stock markets over the last 10 years.

Handbook of World Stock, Derivative & Commodity Exchanges. Print. (HG 4551 .H23)
Arranged by country, covers topics such as history, structure, market size, other statistics.

Standard & Poor's Analysts' Handbook. Print. (HG 4519 .S77)
Selected income statements and balance sheet items and related ratios for selected industry and S&P indices.

Journals

Kresge Library Catalog Selected Subject Headings

Banks and Banking | Consolidation and Merger of Corporations | Corporations Finance | Financial Services | Insurance | International Finance | Mutual Funds | Real Estate | Valuation | Venture Capital

Associations

Association for Financial Professionals

American Finance Association
Special areas of interest: corporate, international and public finance, investment, banking.

Financial Executives Research Foundation
Sponsors and publishes research emphasizing corporate financial management issues.
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