Research Guides: Business Research: Financial Research

Recommended Databases for Financial Research

RIA Checkpoint
A tax and financial research database that allow users to search federal and state tax laws. It also includes financial planning calculators and current tax related news.
Factiva
A Dow Jones & Reuters Company, Factiva provides global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Factiva covers nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires. Factiva is an excellent source for financial data including stock quotes, company comparisons, financial snapshots, SEC filings, interactive charting, and historical market information.
EconLit
Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. NOTE: Only one user may access this database at the same time.
Business Source Premier
Provides full text and abstracts to scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.This database is updated on a daily basis.

U.S. SEC EDGAR Data Search
A database to search for Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, & Retrieving (EDGAR) SEC filings from the last 20 years. Can be used to locate public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC.
FDIC Data Tools
Data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on FDIC-insured banks, institution financial reports, and deposit mart-share reports.
Office of Financial Research Tools & Data
The Office of Financial Research provides high-quality financial data, standards and analysis principally to support the Financial Stability Oversight Council and its member agencies.
IRS Tax Statistics
A range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.