Almanac of Business and Industrial Ratios. Prentice-Hall, annual. (Business Ready Reference HF5681.R25 T68)
Financial and operating ratios for 195 industries are given, covering 50 performance indicators. Information is derived from official corporate reports submitted to the IRS. A cd-rom is available at the Service Desk.
Global Company Handbook. 1st ed. Center for International Financial Analysis & Research, 1992. (Reference HG4009 .C54 1st ed.)
"Provides analyses of the financial performance of the world's leading 7,500 companies." Uses 43 key financial and non-financial ratios or variables and provides several ranked lists (e.g., top 500 companies by sales).
RMA Annual Statement Studies, Including Comparative Historical Data and Other Sources of Composite Financial Data. Robert Morris Associates, annual. (Business Ready Reference HF5681 .B2 R6)
This is a publication by and for the commercial lending community. In addition to "composite financial data on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, agricultural, and contracting lines of business" (about 300 in all), the publication includes an extensive listing of sources of more detailed composite financial data for individual industries.
101 Business Ratios: A Manager's Handbook of Definitions, Equations, and Computer Algorithms. How to Select, Compute, Present, and Understand Measures of Sales, Profit, Debt, Capital, Efficiency, Marketing, and Investment. (C. Sheldon Gates) McLane, 1993. (Reference HF5657.4 .G38 1993)
Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations. U.S. Department of Commerce, quarterly. (Government Publications C3.267:date)
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage. Standard & Poor's, quarterly. (Business Ready Reference HG4501 .S27)
Each of the 52 industry surveys provides an overview of the current environment, an industry profile, a glossary of terms, sources of further information, and a comparative company analysis. Surveys on particular industries are updated twice annually. An index to companies gives access to comparative financial information about 1,200 individual companies.
