With a Click of a Mouse, You Can Access the Real Financial Data that the Experts Use!

If you purchased a new copy of this text, you will have received a pass code card with access information for S & P’s Educational Version of Market Insight.

As of 2006, there are over 1000 companies on the EMI website, including 650 U.S. companies, 100 Canadian companies, 250 non-North American companies, and 100 Financial Service companies. If you received a pass code card with the purchase of a new textbook from McGraw-Hill Ryerson, you have access to the Educational Version of Standard & Poors Market Insight, a rich online resource revealing 1000 of the most often researched companies in the Market Insight database.

For these 1000 companies, this web site provides you:

• Access to 6 years worth of fundamental financial data from the renowned Standard & Poors Compustat database.
• 12 Excel Analytics Reports, including annual and quarterly balance sheets, income statements, ratio reports and cash flow statements, daily, weekly, and monthly adjusted prices reports, and profitability, forecasted values and monthly valuation data reports.
• Access to Financial Highlights Reports, a snapshot report highlighting a company's most current financial information including key ratios.
• Long Business Descriptions discuss, in-depth, a company's business operations.
• Company Profile, identifying each company's address, web site, phone number, GICS Sub-Industries, primary SICs and executive officers.
• Corporate Actions Report showing recent acquisition activity and other recent corporate actions.
• Industry Profile Report describes a company's industry, most recent sales information for that industry, and the primary SIC codes of companies in the industry grouping.
• Industry Constituents Listing of firms in the same industry grouping.
• News feeds (updated real-time) for companies and industries.
• Stock Reports offering fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis.
• EDGAR reports, including annual and quarterly filings, proxy statements, registrations and more.
• S&P Industry Surveys provides an in-depth look at industry trends, how the industry operates, key ratios, statistics and more.
• Investment Policy Committee Notes are weekly reports based on the meetings of the Investment Policy Committee, containing information such as an Economic Outlook of recent news and reports, upcoming reports and a longer-term outlook, Equity Market Outlooks of Fundamental and Technical Observations and more.
• Trends & Projections Report is a monthly newsletter, co-written by Standard & Poor's Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee David Blitzer and Managing Director and Chief Economist David Wyss, providing an in-depth review and analysis of the U.S. economy.