Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
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Find Books and more in our Library Use the Library Catalog to locate materials within our collection. The Library Catalog provides location, call number and bibliographic information for the books, journals, newspapers, selected government documents, microforms and other media, as well as online or electronic resources owned or accessed by the Western Libraries.
Books and other resources can be found in the Western Library catalog or the Summit catalog by searching by subject. Please use the following Library of Congress subject headings:
EBSCO (All Databases) EBSCO (All Databases) is a combination of Academic Search Complete (a scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 10,000 journals, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals) and Business Source Complete (a full-text index to journals in business, management, marketing, etc.)
JSTOR JSTOR provides searchable full-text access to backfiles of core scholarly journals in many fields including African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. There is a gap, usually from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. Site License.
Wall Street Journal Index • Location: Wilson 2 West; Periodical Index HG1 .B3
• Dates covered: 1968-current
Wall Street Journal Index indexes the Eastern edition of the newspaper.
The complete investment and finance dictionary : the most thorough and updated reference available / Bonham, Howard Bryan. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4513 .B66 2001
• Check Catalog This contains over 5,000 investment and finance definitions.
Dictionary of finance and investment terms / Downes, John, 1936- • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG151 .D69 1991
• Check Catalog This covers more than 4,000 terms relating to stocks, bonds, banking and finance. It contains many graphs and charts.
Dictionary of financial abbreviations / Paxton, John. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG151.3 .P38 2003
• Check Catalog This lists abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, initialisms and symbols in the fields of commerce, finance, banking and accounting.
Global finance: a glossary of terms / United States. Central Intelligence Agency • Location: Haggard 2 Government Information PREX3.10/7:G189-10074
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The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of finance / Paxson, Dean (editor) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD30.15 .B53 1997 v. 8
• Check Catalog This dictionary is v.8 of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management. Not only does it define terms but puts them in context (more like an encyclopedia) and provides a lengthly bibliography with each term.
Encyclopedia of banking & finance / Munn, Glenn G. (editor) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG151 .E63 1993
• Check Catalog This contains an exhaustive review of almost any banking-related question relating to strategic planning, presentations and reporting. In addition to defining thousands of banking, business and financial terms, the Encyclopedia includes a wide array of useful legal, statistical, analytic and regulatory tools.
The New Palgrave dictionary of money & finance / Newman, Peter (editor) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG151 .N48 1992
• Check Catalog This three volume dictionary includes over 1000 essays. It is a companion work to the New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. While some essays are theoretical, the emphasis is on empirically oriented essays that include matters such as institutional analysis and description, monetary history and problems of financial regulation.
Reference Works: Exams and Tutorials
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism / Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism The Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism (at Arizona State University) aims to improve the quality of American business journalism by offering online tutorials and a series of business journalism online seminars. Although written for journalists, this provides a good insight into finance topics such as understanding financial statements, financial markets and SEC filings.
Reference Works: Handbooks
Barron's finance & investment handbook / Downes, John, 1936- • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG173 .D66 1990
• Check Catalog An in-depth analysis of investment vehicles. It includes a large number of tables and historical price information.
Handbook of modern finance / Logue, Dennis E. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG173 .H34 1996
• Check Catalog This all-inclusive source gives complete, detailed coverage of the financial system and markets (Part A), financial policy, security analysis, pricing and portfolio management (Part B), short and long term internal corporate financial decisions (Part C, D and E) and international dimensions of finance (Part F).
International Accounting and Finance Handbook. Supplement. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5686.I56 H36 1997 Suppl.
• Check Catalog This covers a broad range of topics concerned with accounting and financial reporting worldwide.
Portable MBA in finance and accounting / Livingstone, John Leslie. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4026 .P665 1997
• Check Catalog These experts provide practical, jargon-free explanations of key finance and accounting topics.
Reference Works: Financial Tables and Statistics For interest rates see Money
Global financial data / Global Financial Data Current and Historical Data for the United States and over 150 countries, including Stock Markets from 1690, Exchange Rates from 1590, Interest Rates from 1700, Commodities from 1500 and Inflation from 1264.
International financial statistics / International Monetary Fund. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG3881 .I6262
• Check Catalog This contains statistics such as exchange rates, international liquidity rates, statistics on international banking, money, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions (including balance of payments and international investment position), government finance and national account for most countries of the world.
General Resources
Finance resources on the web / Giddy, Ian Directory of web resources covering several areas of finance: general finance and the economy, financial markets, corporate finance, fund & investment research, risk management & international finance. Created and maintained by Ian Giddy, Professor of Finance at NYU's Stern School of Business.
Internet resources and services for international finance and investment / Jiao, Qun G. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG64 .J5 2001
• Check Catalog This contains more than 3000 web sites covering over 200 countries, regions and territories. It is divided by continent. It contains global finance and investment sources, trade associations, corporate and industry information, emerging market resources, stock exchanges, investment research, news and a wide variety of other sources.
Wachowicz's web world / Wachowicz, John Designed initially to be used with the Fundamentals of Financial Management textbook, this provides an entire series of alphabetical links on current financial topics. Wachowicz is Professor of Finance at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Finance Industry Profiles
Information, Finance, & Services USA / Gale Group • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD9981.4.I53
• Check Catalog Covers industry information on the U.S. finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. This resource includes financial statements.
Global development finance / World Bank Global Development Finance combines a diagnosis of recent trends and prospects for capital flows to developing countries with an analysis of important policy issues.
Global financial stability report / International Monetary Fund The Global Financial Stability Report by the International Capitals Market Department provides semiannual assessments of global financial and capital markets and addresses emerging market financing in a global context.
International financial statistics yearbook / International Monetary Fund. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG3881 .I627
• Check Catalog The latest edition is in the Reference area; earlier editions are in the general stacks. Monthly updates are also available in Reference.
This is the principle publication of the IMF, and contains country tables for each of its approximately 150 members. It includes data on exchange rates, money and banking interest rates, production, and prices. It also includes world and area tables, broken down by country, containing information on consumer prices, imports, exports, and industrial production. For most series, monthly data is for the current year, but the Yearbook issue also presents some annual statistics over a 30 year span.
This contains a section on balance of payments and trade.
Microfinance
Microfinance gateway / Microfinance Gateway The Microfinance Gateway is the most comprehensive online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance.
A financial history of the United States / Markham, Jerry W. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG181 .M297 2002
• Check Catalog The focus of this work is on how political issues influence public finance, particularly governmental monetary, credit, and foreign trade controls.
Related Topic: Annual Reports, Financial Statements, 10Ks
