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Finance

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Encyclopedia of finance

Encyclopedia of busines$$ and finance

Handbooks: 

Asset and liability management handbook

Australian financial planning handbook

Australian master financial planning guide

Australian superannuation handbook

Bloomberg visual guide to financial markets

Handbook of behavioral finance

Handbook of computational finance

Handbook of corporate finance

Handbook of Islamic finance

Dictionaries: 

A dictionary of finance and banking

Renton's dictionary of stock exchange and investment terms

The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of finance, investment and banking

Call Numbers

• HG178 Liquidity
• HG179 Personal finance
• HG201-1496 Money
• HG1501-3550 Banking
• HG3810-4000 Foreign exchange. International finance
• HG4001-4285 Finance management. Business finance
• HG4501-6051 Investment, Capital formation, Speculation
----HG4538 Foreign investments
----HG4551-4598 Stock exchanges

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

ABI Inform Global

Business Source Complete

Business, Economics and Management (Business Australia)

Emerald Insight

Full list of business databases

Multimedia

Multimedia: 

Khan Academy

Harvard Business Review YouTube channel

MIT Sloan School of Management

Investopedia

Business Source Complete (Select Advanced Search and then browse the Business Videos)

Video Streams on Demand Business and Economics videos recorded offair by Library Multimedia

News

News: 

Financial Newspapers

Australian Financial Review

Business Asia

Business Review Weekly

Financial Review Smart Investor

Financial Times

International Business Times

Wall Street Journal

News and Newspaper Databases

Factiva Search the full text of hundreds of newspapers from Australia and around the world,or use the Companies/Markets tab to search for information on listed companies throughout the world.

PressDisplay The last 60 days of hundreds of newspapers from Australia and around the world are available for searching and browsing. Page layout views of the newspapers are displayed and the stories are shown exactly as published.

Informit TVNews Videoclips of news broadcasts from Australian television stations from 2007 onwards.

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: 

Interactive Software

Interactive Finance Fully integrated package of learning materials including, digital textbook, virtual classroom, exercises, graphical applets, spreadsheet templates, multi-choice questions and applied problems.

Company Information

Connect4 is a wholly owned Australian Company which specialises in providing information on companies which are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. This site provides searchable access to Australian company information.

Dat Analysis Premium provides comprehensive reports for all companies listed on the ASX. These reports are updated daily from relevant ASX announcements.

Osiris (Bureau van Dijk) A comprehensive database of listed corporates, banks and insurance companies around the world. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and ratios it contains news, ownership, ratings, earnings estimates and stock data.

Factiva A global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. To find company information: select the 'Companies/Markets' tab and click 'Company'.

Country Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Reserve Bank of Australia

OECD ilibrary

International Financial Statistics (via IMF elibrary)

World Development Indicators (via World Bank)

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