Tuesday 15 March 2011

Fame is the answer (Financial analysis made easy)


A question from an MA Music Business Management student
and my reply which may help with your assignment.

Q. What other business e-resources do we subscribe to other than Business Insight, Mintel, Factiva and Business Source Complete? I wonder does our library have an e-resource that is good for finding analysts' reports of listed companies? I am looking for strategic and financial analysis.


A.For Financial information about a particular company we subscribe to FAME (financial analysis made easy) available through Library search. The Business librarians have been featuring it on their blog and providing a step-by-step guide to using it, which you might find useful including a peer analysis.


Be aware it’s UK and Ireland based and it may help with searching if you are aware of the holding company. The British library subscribe to ORBIS which is a “fuller” product by the same company as it contains International listed and unlisted companies.

You could also do a company search in Factiva - click on the companies/markets tab and then click on the company tab that appears underneath



Factiva also provides other contextual information – e.g. Searching for EMI brings me a company report, datamonitor reports, and further down the page tabs that lead to further news and business reports that relate to the company.

You could also consider companies house where you can buy a report (about £1 a download).

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