Looking for Real Estate Investment Trust information?  Here’s some of the TCU databases that provide that information:
MorningStar (only allows 2 users at a time): Click on the Industries link under the Industries category (see screen shot). This takes you into an alphabetical listing of industries. Scroll down until you find the REITS link.  Voila!
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Value Line [...]
Trying to figure out rules of business etiquette in Botswana? Check out the TCU database, Global Road Warrior. It covers lots of other areas too: Business Women, Money and Banking, Travel Essentials, Country Facts, etc.
Wanting an investment overview of Bangladesh? Try the TCU database, CountryWatch. Click on the “Country Reviews” tab at the top. It [...]
Here’s a nice website that I came across while going through book review cards (Ironic, isn’t it?).Â
http://www.iii.org/financial2/
It is the Financial Services Fact Book, and the website provides information on the financial services industry including insurance, banking, mortgage, securities, and finance. I’ll provide a smattering of some of the data they provide: Mergers, Leading Companies, Educational Plans [...]
Morningstar has provided a guide for money management and investing tips for women and has given permission for it to be posted on blogs.
Report Sections:
Setting a Budget (and Sticking to It!)
How to Set Up an Emergency Fund
A New Financial You in 30 Days
Closing the Gap on the Wage Divide
Advice for the Soon-to-Be-Divorced
What to Do When [...]
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Doing research on these topics for accounting? Here are some suggested databases and search terms.
I would look in the following TCU databases (keep in mind that some of these databases have limits on the # of simultaneous users, so if a non-TCU password screen pops up, just wait and try again later):
Business Source Complete, EconLit, [...]
Here’s another useful feature in TCU’s database, MorningStar (I’m quoting from their email):
“If you go to the Help and Education page of Morningstar Investment Research Center, you will find our Investing Classroom. There are courses on stocks, mutual funds, and portfolio analysis. The nice thing about Investing Classroom is that it can help anyone–from the [...]
Only of use to TCU folks- to access the Wall Street Journal (full text): I am giving you instructions on how to only search through the Wall Street Journal publication.
Go to the TCU database, Factiva  (note: this database only allows 5 users at a time, so if a nonTCU password screen pops up, that means that [...]
Sorry guys & gals for the somewhat misleading title. I am not connecting entrepreneurship and expenditure patterns. However, I am providing a link to a report called the Monthly Labor Review which contains several reports (including one on entrepreneurship and one on expenditure patterns).
The pdf is lengthy, but it contains several reports (I am paraphrasing [...]
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Morningstar Rocks! They keep sending free investment reports and giving permission for those reports to get posted onto blogs. SO- here a Morningstar report on how to invest in “green” and “socially responsible” companies. Reports within the pdf include: 1) Socially Responsible Investing, 2) Going Beyond the Hype of Green Investing, 3) Carbon Regulation, 4) [...]
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One of our database vendors, Morningstar, sent their analyst’s investment report for 2009 with permission to put on a website. So I am. There are 4 different reports in the pdf file: 1) 10 Best Companies in the World, 2) The Best Funds for 2009, 3) Retirees’ 2009 Survival Guide, and 4) Clip and Save: 20 [...]
