Business, Accounting Resources
Company Research
Annual Reports Gallery - For company information this is one of the best places to go. You can search for your company and it will give you a link to the company's home page, a link to their annual report and will tell you the stock symbol and if you click on which market it is listed in, it will automatically look up current information about that company's stock.
Best Business Web Sites - Carnegie Library of Business has 36 sites for its business subject guide. Each site has links for Pittsburgh area, PA, US, and International.
Better Business Bureau (BBB) - Includes owner name, when founded, whether or not they been in good standing in the last year, complaints listed (or not). Other BBB’s available, state-wide and locally. The right way to file a complaint! Search a company by file name, phone number, and Web site. Narrow a search with street address and city, option to search for BBB members only. Can also find charities by name or charity focus. Can find BBB in user’s own area by searching city, state and/or zip code. – Lists phone, fax, address, email and Web site.
Bizjournals.com - National coverage of over 40 full-text business journals including the Pittsburgh Business Times. Covers latest news in different cities. Register for free extra services – email alerts, search watch, and my industry page: email alerts sent to your email.
CEO Express - This is definitely a "mega- site for all things news and business". While part of the site is paid access only, the free part of the site offers an impressive amount of information, including updates on business law and legislation.
Check Domain - Has the Web site’s owner’s name, address, and phone number. National and international companies. Register your organization. Search to see who registered a domain. Gives registrant name, address, first registered, last updated, admin contact, technical contact, billing contact, name servers and information source. Search, look up, check, select, reserve, purchase, register, back-order, transfer, renew, protect, and / or monitor domain names, internet / Web addresses, or URLs for any country in the world from checkdomain.com.
Corporate Information--a search engine that locates corporate profiles and investment information.
EDGAR - Supported by the SEC, this site is "a key source for detailed company financial information for business and investment research." Search annual and quarterly reports by company name, file number or Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), to name a few.
Fortune 500 - with links to a snapshot about the company that includes a link to their homepage and charted information about the stock.
Hoover’s Online - Searches mainly public companies. Business headlines – selected throughout the day by Hoover’s Online editors. Profile of the Day: Overview, detailed history, news and commentary, key people: officers & employees, board members, auditor name, number of employees with job openings link, 1-year employee growth (%), location & subsidiaries with contact info, products/operations, patents link, competitors links, financials, financial links. Note: key = for subscribers only – not free info. Includes newly-updated records. Search by company name, ticker symbol, news, keyword, etc. Get stock quotes. List of Lists: rankings -- from the fastest-growing firms to the best companies – US Indexes, regional, national, international and global.
Kompass (database) - Foreign manufacturers and distributors. Full profiles onsite. Advertised as business search engine. Search by products and services (available in several different languages), company and trade name, worldwide, by continent, by country name, by guided search: industry and by default: worldwide. Access information on 1.6 million companies, 23 million key products and services, 3.2 million executive names, 744,000 trade and brand names, 50,000 Kompass classification codes. Do guided search: crude oil. Select a company – shows general information, executives, key figures, financials, products and services and additional information.
Switchboard.com - Companies nationwide. Achieved rapid success on the Internet by being the first to market with a free national directory of U.S. residential information. Connects consumers searching for specific products and services with the merchants that provide them. Central focus: helping small and medium-size businesses to establish a presence on the Web and connect with the consumers who are looking to do business with them. Maps On Us provides advanced mapping and driving directions throughout the United States.
Thomas Register - U.S. & Canadian manufacturers by name, product and brand name. Geographic search by state and for product. Register for free membership with unlimited access; Search for product or service, company name, or brand name. Sample search: Dow Chemicals (click on link and receive info re contact info: address, phone number, fax number; year company founded; company description (products). Option to email records to a colleague. Offers site demo. My TR allows users to save frequently accessed searches. Favorite companies can be saved in “My TR.” Helpful FAQ pages.
Thompson & Thompson -
Links to eight major agencies for each state. State home page, attorney general, governor, corporations, legislature, secretary of state, court system, tax bureau. For PA, allows users to file state taxes online.