ECON 393 : Practicum in Entrepreneurship

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Public Company Filings and Annual Reports

Annual Reports (ARs) typically contain the 10-K plus the annual Shareholder's Letter and whatever material the company especially wants to highlight. Public companies will post at least a few years of ARs on their websites (see McDonald's, for example), but the number of years will vary widely. If you need ARs or 10-Ks before the last few years, try these resources below.

The SEC maintains t his list of all filings that public companies are required to submit, with descriptions.

SEC EDGAR
10-Ks, 10-Qs and all other major filings from U.S. public companies, back to the mid-1990s.
Rank and Filed
From the site: "Rank and Filed gathers data from EDGAR, indexes it, and returns it in formats meant to help investors research, investigate and discover companies on their own."

Mergent Historical Annual Reports
Contains company annual reports from the U.S., Canada, and International (mostly Europe). Over 1 million annual reports, starting over 100 years ago.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries
A directory of actual printed annual reports held by some university business libraries.
Corporate Reports Online from UPenn
A collection of freely-available annual reports from U.S. companies, 1800-1955.

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Business Source Premier
Find scholarly articles on business topics in addition to other types of content.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies widely.
Orbis
Information on more than 190 million publicly traded and privately held companies from almost 200 countries around the world.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
CB Insights
Provides information and independent analysis of private companies in a wide range of industries. There is a special focus on the financing, and mergers and acquisitions of these companies through private investors and venture capital and private equity firm

Access: Students, faculty, and staff or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-CH with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from on- or off-campus, but must ALWAYS authenticate, EVEN when on-campus.
Osiris
Contains information on more than 80,000 listed (publicly traded) companies, banks and insurance companies from 190 countries around the world. Provides ownership, subsidiaries, earnings estimates and stock data.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1996 - present
Factiva
Contains major global newspapers, business newspapers and magazines, trade and industry journals, prominent newswires, and network broadcast transcripts. In the Companies/Markets tab, there are global company reports, limited industry reports, and market data. The results pages allow robust filtering, and there is live chat help.

Note:Not all sources are available to Academic accounts. If you receive 0 results for any given Source search, it is likely that the source is not available to you.

Please note the time out period for inactive viewing is 10 minutes. The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. 9,000 sources are updated on the day of publication.
Language: Primarily English. Over 20 languages total.

Other Company Information and News

Data Axle Reference Solutions
Provides detailed directory information for millions of U.S. businesses and households. You can search the more than 12 million business listings by company name, yellow page headings, NAICS and SIC codes, executive names, sales volume, number of employees, and stock exchange ticker symbols.

Note:Users are not permitted access from IP addresses outside of the United States.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. North Carolina residents with a borrower's card may access from off campus by visiting NCLive directly. Contact the Davis Library Service Desk for the NCLive password (instructions).
Coverage: Current information only
LexisNexis Academic (Please see Nexis Uni)
LexisNexis Academic has been discontinued and the content moved to Nexis Uni.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. Some of the files go back to the 1970s

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