A new business database is now available via Oesterle Library: Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Public and Private Companies.

You can turn to Ward’s to look up current sales, market share, and company information for U.S. companies. And by using the database’s Advanced Search features, you can order companies by industry, geography, or sales/market share data.

Ward’s is accessible from the library homepage, the library’s Articles pages, and from the Research by Subject page for Business.

Oesterle Library has just added a new resource for students of accounting, business, and finance: the Risk Management Association’s RMA eStatement Studies database.

The database includes financial ratio benchmarks drawn from the financial statements of companies in over 740 industries. Industry searches may be sorted by title, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code, or sector.

The database can be accessed by selecting “RMA eStatement Studies” from the “Choose a Database” pull-down menu on the library homepage (under the Find Articles link), from the Find Articles page, and from the Research by Subject pages for Accounting and Business.

Direct link to the database.