COM 495 Senior Capstone Experience

BSC contains articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, and news sources. It covers all areas of business and management. In addition there are company profiles, SWOT analyses, industry reports, market research reports, and country reports.

Access includes Core NAICS US Industry Market Research Reports, Industry Risk Rating Reports, Specialized Super Niche Reports, and iExpert Summaries.

Mergent offers corporate profiles, SEC financial statements, and business ratios for 10,500 public U.S. companies and 20,000 non-U.S. companies. It also has industry reports from 3 continents. Download financial data and create customized reports.

The directory of U.S. Businesses has 24 million companies, subsidiaries or divisions, searchable by industry, keyword or location. A directory of U.S. Consumers and Lifestyles is a marketing source of 260 million people, searchable by demographics, location, and purchasing patterns. There are also directories for Physicians and Dentists and for Jobs and Internships.

Provides coverage of public and private companies, now expanded to over 100,000 companies. Financial information on public companies includes 3 years of financial data; ratings of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; industry analysis; and a stock newsletter. The new interface provides new data sets though still maintains content from the previous platform (i.e. Industry Surveys).

Value Line evaluates the investment prospects of 1,700 large, mid, and small-capitalization stocks traded on the U.S. exchanges. Graphs and tables illustrate their long term returns, ratios, earnings, and debt. Narrative analysis discusses company prospects. Stocks are ranked for timeliness, safety, and technical factors. Value Line also contains 1-page analyses of 100 industries.