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 You’re Widowed
- Taking Care of Your Parents
- Six Money Tips for Part-Time Workers
- Where to Turn for Emergency Cash
Here is the report: The Woman’s Guide to Money Matters
Tags: Finance, investments, morningstar, women
FYI: This post/topic is geared towards serious academic researchers. If you need to discover the impact factor of a journal, here is how to do it.
- Go to the TCU database, Web of Science
- Click on the yellow tab at the top of the page titled “Additional Resources”
- Click on the link: “Journal Citation Reports” (under ‘Analytical Tools’ heading)
- For business journals, you want to select “JCR Social Sciences Edition”
- I like to (A) “View a group of journals by subject category” since it provides a point of comparison, but you can also (B) search for a particular journal. Make your choice and click the submit button
- If you have chosen option A from above, on the next screen, you just pick your subject category. Please note that categories for business include: Business; Business, finance; Management; Transportation, and possibly some others.
- Once you get the search results (see screen shot below), if you don’t understand how a particular # is being determined, click on the ‘i’ button and then you will probably need to click on the ‘contents’ tab on the page that appears.
Here’s a sample of what you get (double click to enlarge):
Tags: impact factor, journals
Just occurred to me that I do not believe I have posted the pathway to get to the TCU databases. Based on the emails I get, there are at least a few people who don’t know, so here it is.
- Go to www.lib.tcu.edu
- click on the “Journal Articles & Databases” link on the left side of the page. (Alternately click on the “Find Article” link in the middle of the page)
- From this point, if you know the name of the database you want, click on that letter in the alphabetical listing and scroll down to find the link to your database
- If you don’t know the name of a specific database, but know the Subject (or topic) of your search, I recommend you use the drop-down box under “Databases by Subject” to get to a short list of databases applicable to your search. For business research, here are the subject groupings you might be most interested in: Company & Industry, Finance/Accounting, Management & Marketing, Newspapers, Multi-Disciplinary, and Supply Chain Management.
Now that you know the pathway, here are a few key points about databases:
- If you are off-campus, you will need to use the same username/password that you use to get into MyTCU.
- Some databases have a limited # of users (click the ‘info’ link next to the database name to know for sure). If you get a non-TCU password screen, chances are the max # of users for that database has been reached. Wait approx. 10 minutes and try again.
- Databases are NOT websites. Sure, you use the internet to get to databases, but databases contain electronic versions of Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, and sometimes Books.
- DON”T Google to get to the databases! It has to recognize that you are coming from a TCU IP address. In addition, many of the databases (like Hoover’s) also have corresponding websites: problem is, the websites will try to charge you $$$$$ to get the info; whereas, you could be getting the info for “free” by accessing it through TCU. Everybody is trying to make a buck.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Tags: access, databases, Research Tips
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, General Business File ASAP, Promt, Business Reference Suite (2 users), and Factiva (5 users).
Here is how I would structure my basic search if you have multiple boxes on the page:
Box 1: iasb OR “international accounting standards board”
Box 2: fasb OR “financial accounting standards board”
Box 3: differences
In box 3, you may need to replace the word ‘differences’ with a keyword from some of the other criteria for your assignment (someone needs to post the questions being asked for me to give better suggestions here- my feeble mind cannot recall the entire assignment from my one glance at it). In some databases, you need to NOT use the word differences in order to get results. Try some variations and don’t give up on the first attempt.
If the database has a single search box, construct your search like this:
(iasb OR “international accounting standards board”) AND (fasb OR “financial accounting standards board”) AND differences
Good luck!
Someone sent me the assignment- yeah! Here are some more suggestions for searches.
- I am numbering my searches to match your assignment
- I will put the search in black and any personal commentary/explanations in blue
- I will structure the searches as if I had one search box on the database page (if you have multiple boxes, put the items in parenthesis in a single box, together)
- Feel free to post your own suggestions for classmates in the comments
- Same databases mentioned above.
1. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND (advent OR history OR emergence OR development) You may want to delete the word, development, from your search since it will pull up lots of articles talking about the effects of IFRS on business development. Play around with it.
2. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND politic* The * symbol tells the search engine to look for all the variations that could be added to the end of the word (ex. politics, political, etc.)
3. I think my original suggestions pertain to this (see above this added section)
4. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND (benefit* OR cost* OR pro) Pro, because some databases will have articles that talk about the pros & cons of IFRS (try truncating it also (i.e., adding the * symbolel- pro*)
5. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND “early adopt*” If you don’t get anything back putting “early adopt*” in quotations, take out the quotation marks and try just the word, adopt*. Or, you can try early AND adopt*
Tags: accounting, fasb, iasb, ifrs, Research Tips
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 novice to the expert. You will find course levels ranging from basic terms at the 100 level to derivatives and contemporary theories at the 500 level.”
Just click on the Help and Education tab. Remember, our database only allows 2 simultaneous users, so if you get a strange (i.e., non-TCU) password screen, wait a few minutes and try again.
Double click the screen shot below for an indication of what you will find:
Tags: investments, morningstar, Research Tips
If one of the EBSCOhost databases has a journal in it that you read on a regular basis, and you want to be informed when a new publication is available (and see the Table of Contents), below are instructions on how to either set-up an email alert or an RSS feed. See my earlier post on how to determine if TCU subscribes to your journal/magazine/newspaper.
EBSCOhost is a publisher (i.e., vendor) of various databases. Here are some of the EBSCOhost databases that TCU subscribes to that you may be interested in: Fuente Academica, Communication & Mass Media Complete, EconLit, Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source, PsycInfo, Regional Business News, SocIndex, Vocational & Career Collection, and Business Source Complete.
Here are the step-by-step instructions for setting up a journal alert If the directions ask you to set up an EBSCOhost account, you can set-up your own sub-account underneath TCU’s account with your own personally created user name/password.
Instructions to set up an RSS feed
Note: Business Source Complete contains the Harvard Business Review.
Another note: Most of our databases allow for Alert/Feed options, look for a ‘help’ icon within the database to find instructions. Post a comment if you have another database that you want me to post these directions for!
Tags: alerts, Business Source Complete, harvard business review, journals, rss feeds
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 5 people are currently using the database, and you’ll have to try later- wait 10-15 minutes) (I’m taking a breath now!)
- Note: You may just want to double click the image below vs. reading all this verbage!
- Type your search in the search box
- Make sure the date range works for your needs
- Click the “Source” plus sign
- Click on the “Group: WSJ Publications” link (this should make it show up in pink above the Source search box)
- Click “Run Search”
- DONE!
Tags: databases, Factiva, Research Tips, wall street journal
Our census bureau has kindly created a page of links (listed alphabetically by country) into the statistical agencies of other countries. A great resource if you are researching another country! Nuf said.
Tags: countries, economics, global, statistics
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 BLS’ descriptions of each report below):
- The births and deaths of business establishments in the United States- Basically a report that discusses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) attempt to better measure business start-ups and failures (as an indication of entrepreneurship). The bonus is that they provide lots of statistics on this topic.
- Expenditure patterns of young single adults: two recent generations compared- A report comparing the spending habits of “young, never-married adults in 2004-05 and their counterparts in 1984-85.”
- Business Processes and Business Functions: a new way of looking at employment- BLS created a new classification system and combined it with their Mass Layoff Statistics to gain a new perspective on employment.
- Service-providing occupations, offshoring, and the labor market- An analysis of service-providing occupations’ susceptbility to offshoring.
The Monthy Labor Report is produced by the U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. I am linking you to the December 2008 report.
Tags: analysis, Company, consumerBehavior, economics, entrepreneur, Industry, marketing
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) Energy Investing in a Carbon-Conscious America, and 5) Can you Build an Excellent All-SRI Portfolio?.
Here’s the report: Guide to Green and Socially Responsible Investing
Enjoy!
Tags: Company, databases, investments, morningstar, stocks
