Finding a share prospectus in Capital IQ
When you are researching an equity offering, one of the key items you will need is the prospectus, also known as the offer document or listing particulars. It is a legally-specified document, filed by the ...
Where can I find… Company financial ratios?
Financial ratios are often used to measure the performance of a company. These can be found 'ready-made' in several of our finance resources. Company ratios can be categorised into different types: Profitability ratios - e.g. ...
New from MIRC: Full-text access to Marketing Week!
Do you want to keep abreast of hot topics, news, case studies and reports in marketing? Then sign up for full-text access to Marketing Week! Essential reading for everyone in the world of marketing, the ...
Company codes – CUSIP, SEDOL, ISIN…. What do they mean and how can you use them in our resources?
As you use our many finance resources you will probably notice unique company identifiers which may be codes or symbols. It is worth spending some time getting to know what these are and which resources ...
Introducing… the UK Data Service (UKDS)
If you’re looking for a gateway to key economic and social data, then you might like to take a look at the UK Data Service (UKDS). What's included? Offering a wide range of secondary data ...
Where can I find credit ratings for companies?
A credit rating (or score) is a measure of a company or corporation’s ability to meet their financial commitments based on their previous dealings. It can also be viewed as a measure of a company’s credit worthiness when ...
Saving your searches in Factiva
Factiva can be very useful to keep yourself informed on the international press - but did you know it was possible to save a Factiva search to re-run it whenever you like so that you ...
Researching… M&A
Mergers and acquisitions are never very far from the news. But if you need to find out about a transaction in depth, where can you source the details you might not find in the papers? M&A Specifics Capital ...
Creating a bibliography is easy using Mendeley
If you’re using Mendeley’s Citation Plug-in for Word, you will soon be ready to generate a bibliography of all the references you have cited. Here we’ll run through how quick and easy it is to ...
Creating a mailing list in FAME
Did you know that FAME, one of our finance resources, also has the functionality to create mailing lists for British and Irish companies? This can be particularly useful if you need to produce a list ...