62 lines
3.1 KiB
Plaintext
62 lines
3.1 KiB
Plaintext
CIRR DATABASE
|
|
|
|
A tool for corporate research
|
|
|
|
For more info, contact: Kerry Dressler through EnviroNet mail
|
|
|
|
CIRR actually stands for the Company and Industrial
|
|
Research Reports Datebase. Not all Libraries will have this
|
|
available on computer, but if you have a Universtiy nearby, you
|
|
might try there. It is usually updated monthly, and searches can
|
|
be made by company name, or type of business. These reports are
|
|
usually done by large stock brockerage houses for their clients,
|
|
but there are also several trade journals that are abstracted.
|
|
Most of the files are available on Microfiche, which can then be
|
|
xeroxed using a viewer. Companies that I've checked on have all
|
|
been ones traded on stock exchanges. This is a service for the
|
|
College of Business Administration at the University near me.
|
|
Large brockerage firms would probably have access to the system,
|
|
also.
|
|
|
|
I ran Waste Management, Inc. through the system and the
|
|
file was 156 pages long! It traces all the earnings, quarterly,
|
|
large contracts, mergers, intereactions with other firms, and a
|
|
variety of esoteric - business oriented information. There are
|
|
several firms that write these reports excerpting trade journals
|
|
and tracing rumors. They discussed the effect new EPA
|
|
regulations would have on the company's earnings, as well as any
|
|
legal problems they were having. Market managers make their
|
|
decisions on whether to buy or sell stocks by the accuracy of
|
|
these reports. Reports were dated from January 1990 back to
|
|
January 1982. Other back files are available.
|
|
|
|
Another, more available computer database is called
|
|
Infotrak. It has a vast number of subjects available, but rather
|
|
than giving you an abstract, or having microfiche available , it
|
|
only lists the periodicals that a particular subject may be found
|
|
in. You then have to hope your library carries that particular
|
|
periodical. A large number of trade journals has been added to
|
|
the database and it is updated monthly.
|
|
|
|
Both databases are fairly easy to access and have "print"
|
|
features if a printer is on line. CIRR can also be downloaded by
|
|
subject to diskette.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X
|
|
Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven
|
|
|
|
& the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845
|
|
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766
|
|
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662
|
|
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699
|
|
The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK
|
|
The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674
|
|
Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560
|
|
|
|
"Raw Data for Raw Nerves"
|
|
X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X
|