Two good database sources for articles on an industry's trends are:

JSTOR, Business Source Complete,

Business Source Complete, Global Newsstream

Business Source Complete, Reference USA

none of the above

8. Industry ratios are quantitative indicators of financial strength and operating success. These ratios are benchmarks created by research companies who compile financial statements of many businesses in an industry to discover industry financial averages.

A good database to use for this information is

Key Business Ratios

Google Ratios

Wall St Journal ratios

Edgar ratios

Since the 1930s, the federal government has used industry codes to classify business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. economy, and to check the relative health of industries.

There are two systems

SIC (1937-1987)

NAICS (1997-p)

Which of the following statement is true about these codes?

They are basically the same

SIC has a few more codes than NAICS

NAICS is much more inclusive to today's industries

None of the above

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