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Further informationAudit Analytics
Audit Analytics is accessible via a registered email address/password combination. To request access, send an email from your "otago.ac.nz" email address to: thardy@ivesinc.com. Access detailed research on over 20,000 public companies and more than 1,500 accounting firms.
Further informationBloomberg
A leading global provider of data, news and analytical information. It provides both real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communication tools in a single, integrated package.
Further informationCompustat Global Data (Standard & Poor's)
Access via Compustat Standard & Poor's Research Insight interface. Provides international data from the last 20 years of annual and the last 12 years of semiannual fundamental data on active and inactive global companies. Also provides the last 20 years of monthly price history on active and inactive companies. For help accessing this database please email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Further informationCompustat North America Data/Price History (Standard & Poor's)
Access via Compustat Standard & Poor's Research Insight interface. Provides access to the last 20 years of annual and the last 12 years of quarterly data on active and inactive U.S. and Canadian companies. Also provides access to the last 10 years of daily and the last 20 years of monthly price history on active and inactive companies. For help accessing this database please email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Further informationCompustat Standard & Poor's Research Insight
An analytical software interface used to access Compustat North America Data/Price History, Compustat Global Data and additional Back Data files for North America Data. For help accessing this database please email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Further informationCRSP US Stock Database (Centre for Research in Security Prices)
Access via CRSPSift interface. Contains stock history back to 1925 with daily and monthly data on all listed NYSE, AMEX, NYSE Amex US, NASDAQ, and NYSE ARCA common stocks along with basic market indices. For help accessing this database please email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Further informationCRSP/Compustat Merged Database (CCM)
Access via CRSPSift interface. Provides concurrent database access to CRSP's stock data and Compustat's fundamental data for active and inactive companies. For help accessing this database please email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Further informationdirectEDGAR
Designed specifically for academic researchers trying to find and collect data from SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) filings.
Further informationEmerald
The Emerald Management Extra (EMX) collection includes more than 160 full-text, peer-reviewed, commerce journals. Also included is access to the Emerald Backfiles - the full digitized archive of Emerald journal titles in business, management, library and information services, materials sciences and engineering.
Further informationFactiva
Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 28,000 sources, from 157 countries in 23 languages.
Public accessFactiva (training)
Training access only. Training username and password required.
Further informationInternational Financial Statistics Online (via IMF)
Source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
Public accessNew Zealand Share Price Data
Share price information on New Zealand listed companies from 1967 onwards.
Further informationNZX Deep Archive (formerly Datex)
Lists New Zealand company information and provides current and historical analysis of company data including annual report and financial data.
Further informationOSIRIS (Global Quoted Companies)
Browser must allow pop-ups. A comprehensive database of 46,000 listed companies from 190 countries. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and ratios, it contains a wide range of complementary information such as ownership, subsidiaries, and ratings. Also contains SEC (Edgar) filings and Global Reports.
Further informationScopus
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
Public accessSocial Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents.

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Reference

  • Dictionary of financial abbreviations 2003 - Cen:Ref HG/151,3/PA632
  • Dictionary of financial terms 2000 - Cen:Ref HG/151/MV64
  • Dictionary of international business terms 1998 - Cen:Ref HD/62.4/SJ27
  • Encyclopedia of business 2000 - Cen:Ref HF/1001/EJ7/2000
  • Encyclopedia of business & finance 2001 - Cen:Ref HF/1001/EJ73
  • From top down to bottom up: NZ guide to financial jargon 1996 - Cen:Ref HF/151/RB33
  • Handbook of international financial terms 1997 - Cen:Ref HG/3881/MP823
  • International business information: how to find it... - Cen:Ref HF/54.5/P327/1998
  • International encyclopedia of the stock market 1999 - Cen:Ref HG/4551/IL22
  • International financial statistics yearbook 2000 - Cen:Ref HG/176/IL3/2000
  • New Zealand business who's who - Cen:Ref HF/4030.5/NH32
  • New Zealand company register - Cen:Ref HF/4030.5/Z6/NH32
  • StatSoft (e-text)
  • Who owns whom 1999/2000 - Cen:Ref HG/4009/W464/1999/2000

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Statistics

  • Europa World Yearbook -Cen:Ref D/839/E85
  • Far East and Australasia: a Survey & Directory -Cen:Ref DS/1/F3
  • International Financial Statistics -Cen:Jnl HG/3881/I571
  • Key Statistics (NZ) - Cen:Ref 3T5ws
  • Main Economic Indicators (OECD) - Cen:Jnl HC/10/M24
  • NZ official yearbook - Cen:Ref 3T5w

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Share prices & stock exchanges

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Web sites

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  • Banking data and research
  • Brint - Leading business publications and academic sources
  • Country Commercial Guides - Country Commercial Guides (CCG) prepared by US Embassy Staff annually.
  • Financial Markets Center - Information on the Federal ReserveSystem
  • FINWEB - Substantive information on economics and finance topics
  • Hoover's online - Concise free capsules on 12,000+ international companies.
  • IMF - International Monetary Fund
  • OECD - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • The Spire Project - Research guide and search-engine alternative - mix of official/governmental sites, databases, libraries, and commercial resources.
  • US Dept of State - Background Notes - countries
  • Virtual finance library - Ohio State University's meta listing of financial resources.
  • Wachowicz's Web World - Introduction to Financial Management, Valuation, Tools of Financial Analysis & Planning, Working Capital Management, Investment in Capital Assets, Cost of Capital, Capital Structure and Dividend Policy, Intermediate & Long-Term Financing, and Special Areas of Financial Management
  • WebEc - Economics and teaching, methodology and history of economic thought, mathematical and quantitative methods, economics and computing, economics data, microeconomics, macroeconomics, etc
  • The World Bank

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Last revised: 9 December, 2009