Annual reports of corporations are available in
paper, on microfiche, and many reports are also available on the WWW. In addition, most financial information appearing an company's annual report is also included in other documents prepared by the company.
FORMAT: Paper
COMPANIES: Fortune 500 companies
LOCATION: These reports are alphabetically arranged by company name in filing cabinets on the 3rd Floor, south of the books with call numbers beginning "HF."
YEARS: Varies, current to up to latest 10 years
CHECKOUT: 4 weeks, with maximum of 2 renewals.
HOW TO LOCATE REPORTS FOR SPECIFIC COMPANIES:
Search the WSU Libraries Online Catalog by author, i.e. by the company's name, for a specific company.
(The call numbers for all paper reports begin: HD 2709.A12)
EXAMPLE:
Annual report / Kellogg Company. Database: Wichita State University Libraries Main Author: Kellogg Company. Title: Annual report / Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. ; Kellogg Company, Description: v. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Subject(s): Kellogg Company. Database: Wichita State University Libraries Catalog Location: Ablah Stacks: A-L on 3rd, M-QE on 2nd, QH-Z Lower Level Call Number: HD2709.A12 K44 Status: Not Charged Volumes Held: Incomplete holdings, limited retention 1989-1998 *Latest 10 years only
WEB ACCESSIBLE
Annual Report Gallery
This service provides a convenient linking mechanism to web based annual reports of publicly traded companies. Most companies are based in the United States, but a few major international companies are included. Links to the home pages of most companies included in this services are also incorporated. Very useful to investors are the Zacks Wall Street Snapshots which are provided for selected companies.Company Home Pages (via Yahoo!)
Most large companies' annual reports may be access through a companies' home page. Check for "Investor Relations" as a category.Annual Report Library
This site serves as a meta site for links to corporate annual report information. If the links listed above prove unsuccessful, and the information is available on the web, this site should prove useful in locating it. Guides to interpreting annual report information and suggestions for writing annual reports are especially useful feature of this site.Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
In addition to providing a wide selection of links to investment information, paper copies of many companies' annual reports may be requested. There is no charge for this service, however not all companies participate.
SEC FILE MICROFICHE COLLECTION
FORMAT: Microfiche
COMPANIES: All companies listed on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and selected NASDAQ companies.
YEARS: 1978-
HOW TO LOCATE REPORTS: Find the company name in the SEC FILE MASTER INDEX which is located on the counter just to the left of the Reference Desk. The index is divided into two sections. The first section lists the most recent reports. Older reports are listed in the second section. For example, below is the entry for Abbott Laboratories from the first section.
ABBOTT LABORATORIESPX 04-26-96 96-215 F AR 12-31-95 96-1412 C AR 12-31-94 95-1071 B PX 04-29-94 94-172 E AR 12-31-93 94-1200 DThe second line indicates that the Abbott Laboratories annual report (AR), issued 31 December 1995, is on microfiche number 96-1412, and is the third report on this microfiche card. (An "A" indicates a report is the first on the card, a "B" the second, and so forth.)
LOCATION: These reports are arranged numerically following the general Microfiche Number 2021 in the Microforms Room on the 1st Floor.
CHECKOUT: One Week.
NOTE: this set also includes 10-K and Proxy Reports. Copies can be made for 10 cents per page.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Mergent Online. (Continuously updated)
URL (on-campus/Shocknet2/PIN access only):
proxy.wichita.edu/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/compsearch.asp
In 1900, John Moody published Moody's® Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities, the first guide to U.S. public companies. Mergent, with its purchase of Moody’s, now provides this in-depth company information once only available in printed manuals via the Internet. MergentOnline provides a fully searchable database of 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, and includes corporate information for 20,000 non-U.S. companies. Fifteen years is the standard time frame for the financial data provided. Each company report also includes up-to-the-minute news items, a company description (narrative with SIC and NAICS information), and information on a company’s executives, property, capital stock (dividends and splits) and long-term debt (bonds and notes). Financial information may be downloaded utilizing software applications such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel or Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®.EDGAR.
URL: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection of submissions by companies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All public domestic companies are required to make their fillings on EDGAR, except for filings made to the Commission's regional offices and filings made in paper because of a hardship exemption. Annual reports to shareholders (except in the case of investment companies) need not be submitted on EDGAR, although some companies do so voluntarily. However, the annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB, which contains much of the same information, is required to be filed on EDGAR.Standard and Poor's Compustat. (updated quarterly)
URL (on-campus/Shocknet2/PIN access only): http://proxy.wichita.edu/login?url=http://library.wichita.edu/colldev/compustatremacc.htm
The Compustat database contains fundamental financial, statistical, and market data for U.S. and Canadian corporations, banks, savings and loans, in addition to extensive data on inactive companies. It provides extensive coverage of annual and quarterly income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and supplemental data items on publicly held companies.
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Updated: July 17, 2006Contact: Curt Friehs, Business Librarian
