Career Information
See Careers and Employment MaxGuide
Starting a Business (Entrepreneurship)
See the Entrepreneurship MaxGuide
International Business
See also MaxGuide International Business
Industries
- Industry.netProfiles of numerous companies from the manufacturing industry - searchable by type of product manufactured.
- MarketResearch.com(free registration required)
- ThomasNetSearchable access to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Find out which companies manufacture certain products. Please register to obtain a username and password (free of charge).
- Valuation Resources. Industry Information Resources.Covers more than 250 industries. Individual pages for each of these industries list resources available from trade associations, industry publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook . . .
Industry Ratios
Industry Ratios -provide data that may be used to compare companies to their peers.
Financial Ratios - data generally calculated from company financial statements.
Common size financial ratios company- financial statement that displays all items as percentages of a common base figure. This type of financial statement allows for easy analysis between companies or between time periods of a company. For further information see NetMBA Common Size Financial Statements.
Industry Research
You may wish to begin your research in one of the Library's business databases. (Click the tab Find Articles for links to these resources).
- Begin by defining your industry and searching for key terms.
- Find the companies SIC/NAICS codes (See the tab SIC, NAICS, and GICs)
You my also wish to search the Internet via search engines.
Marketing
See Marketing and/or Statistics and Data MaxGuides