Finance
Resources for Finance
Finance definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooksPrint dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Dictionary of banking & finance
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332.03/12
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The Economist Books international dictionary of finance
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332.03/4
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International encyclopedia of the stock market
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332.64203/1
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
finance AND dictionar**
international finance AND encycloped**
finance AND handbook**
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. financ** will retrieve finance, finances, financial, financials  Need help? Ask a question.
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Finance books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. international finance AND developing countries
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. financ** will retrieve finance, finances, financial, financials Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. international finance AND
developing countries AND world bank
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Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Finance journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports Try these first
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Business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
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Proquest5000
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Business, management and financial information
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AATD
(Australian Accounting & Taxation Database
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Accounting, auditing, taxation, insolvency, financial management, corporation law. Australian.
1982 - present
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Emerald
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Management, economics, marketing, logistics, training and education. International
Indexing 1989 fulltext 1994 - present
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Factiva
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Newspaper and company information Full text
Preferred browser IE
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12-year detailed financial information for all companies listed on the ASX |
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Complete list of Commerce databases Found a useful reference?Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database. Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g.finance AND banking
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. leadership OR management
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
e.g. financ** will retrieve finance, finances, financial, financials
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
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Finance Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Try the following sites as a starting point. Australian finance and company dataInternational finance and company data
- Bloomberg.com
Gives updated market, company, currency and business news information, with the ability to create comparative charts.
- Yahoo! Finance
Predominantly US listed companies. Detailed performance and historical quotes, data and charts available on this site.
- Financial Times
Financial news, markets, industry and company information. Includes:FT Surveys The Financial Times publishes approximately 240 surveys annually which appear with copies of the newspaper most days of the week. Topics include financial markets, global industries, business management and developed and emerging countries.
- Hoovers Online
Business and company information, including Hoover's 'Company Capsules'
- 10K wizard
Financial and competitive information for publicly listed companies in the United States.
- Wright Investors' Service
Industry and company information with up-to-date financial sales, price and earnings data, as well as news items and market research reports.
- Corporate Information
International site for company information, news, industry analysis and market research.
- CAROL World
UK site for annual reports and investor information.
- Report Gallery
Includes over 2,000 international publicly traded company annual reports and financial information Research and working papersInternationalAustraliaSearch enginesSearch engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database. Try these first:
- Google
use company name with keyword terms, such as 'report' or 'survey'
- Google Scholar
- Business.com - the Business Search Engine
An international directory of business information web sites, mediated by analysts. Gives information, news and resources
- Kompass.com
A search engine for Kompass directories of registered companies worldwide, which is useful to identify individual company or industry sector details. Gives brief contact information (fee-based reports). DirectoriesDirectories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines. UOW sitestop of page
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