LIBRARY GUIDE TO MIS 1000 - Business Problem Solving with IT

Company Reports
Company reports usually contain a business description, a history of the companies, as well as some discussion of company financials. Our key databases for company reports are:

• MarketLine
  company and industry reports, market research information...
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  company and industry profiles...

Annual Reports
Many companies link to their annual reports on their own websites. You can also find these reports online:

• Yahoo Finance
  the annual report is form 10-K under SEC Filings.

Financials & Stocks

• 
  use Financials tab after doing a search.
• Yahoo Finance
  company search takes you to current and historical stock prices.

Latest Developments 
You can learn a lot about a company by reading current newspaper and business articles.

• ABI/Inform Complete
• Factiva
  Factiva is a premier business and general reference resource with a broad collection of sources that reach across disciplines from business and current events to communications and technology, politics, foreign policy, and more. Factiva.com combines more than 28,000 sources to give users access to premium content from 159 countries in 22 languages.

Citation styles allow us to give proper credit to the sources of data or ideas within our writing:

• Guide to APA style
• Guide to MLA style

How to give credit to specialized sources, such as company financials and reports:
 

• You can follow the rules for either books or websites when you are citing company reports depending on whether you have the PDF of the original publication or the online text only.
   
• Generally these materials don't have personal authors, they have corporate authors, i.e. the name of the company that puts together the report is the author's name for citation purposes.

For this assignment you will need two things:

1. Make a copy of this spreadsheet (file > make a copy).
2. The DemographicsNow Database

The spreadsheet contains the directions.  The assignment counts as homework and is due Sunday 2/19.

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