Agricultural Economics 412
Business
Plans
Company Information
Financials
Industry Information
Demographics
Local Business Information
Examples of Plans
- Business Plans Handbook (reference book)
Helpful Websites
- Small Business Administration - http://www.sba.gov
- Bplans
- http://www.bplans.com
Profiles
Articles
- Factiva (Click Publications Library)
- ABI
Inform (Krannert Bldg only)
Spreadsheet data
- Thomson Research (historic 10k data on public companies)
Investment Reports
- Investext Plus (brokerage house reports on particular companies and industries)
- Value Line Investment Survey. Part 3, Ratings & Reports (reference book)
Ratios
- Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (reference book)
- Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (reference book)
- RMA
Annual Statement Studies (reference book)
Market Reports and Articles
- Market Insight (click Industry Table)
- Tablebase
Census Reports by Industry and Geography
- US Economic Census (for the Indiana 1997 Economic Census: Manufacturing report and industry-specific information) - http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html
To map number of business located in a certain area
- County Business Patterns 1999-2000 CD (Available in M & E Library at Workstation #10)
-
LexisNexis Statistical
Directories
- Reference USA (Krannert Bldg only)
- Indiana Manufacturers Directory (reference book)
-
Indiana Business-to-Business Sales & Marketing Directory
(reference book)
Jen Venable jenv@purdue.edu