News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Thanks to Gerry Jiao for figuring out how to track down the archive of PDF reports. If you want to see all the Company reports for a given company search for the company, then on the page for that company, scroll down to the bottom left corner where it says “VALUE LINE PDF REPORTS” and you’ll see older Company reports and other notable reports from the past year:
Value Line updated the interface recently. One of the biggest changes is that the data from the Investment Survey has been broken up and scattered across the site. If you want to get a report on company, here’s how. When you first connect to Value Line, you see a screen like this:
To find a company, use the search box in the top right:
Once you’ve found the company page, you’ll see all sorts of interactive content. If you want to the familiar PDF company reports from the Value Line Investment Survey, you’ll find them over on the right where it says “PDF Reports.”
Our subscription is limited to just some of the content on the site. If you go to the “Dashboard” from the top level navigation, you can go to the “Quick Links” box on the right side to get to other portions of the content we have access to. In this screenshot of that Quick Links box, I’ve highlighted in green the content we have access to and in pink what we don’t have access to:
Those portions are:
If you want to delve deeper into what’s changed and how to find stuff in the new platform, here are some useful links:
If there is some content you still can’t find that you remember from the old platform, please let me know here.
Here is the message from Valueline:
On June 28, 2014 Value Line will be performing system maintenance on our website. This maintenance begins at 10:00AM ET and may last as long as 18 hours.
We thank you for your patience while we work to continually upgrade your online experience.
If you have trouble logging in after June 29, please call the Institutional Hotline at 800.531.1425. Assistance is available Monday through Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM ET.
Please let me know if you still experience problems.
I am investigating.
I have updated the LibGuide for Accounting 4100 Summer. There are two sections being taught by Prof. Jian Xiao. This is a communications intensive course. The students are doing research on one of 12 companies that are listed in the guide. All of the companies, except Facebook, are non-U.S.-based public companies that trade their shares on U.S. exchanges as ADRs. The company websites, Edgar Online I-Metrix, Mergent Online, Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage, Audit Analytics, Factiva and Value Line, are among the suggested resources to help the students prepare their presentations. The students need to discuss the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on the company’s bottom line, and whether to invest in the company. (Facebook, uses the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, rather than IFRS, and being newly publicly traded hasn’t filed a 10-K.)
The course runs through July. I made a presentation to the two sections yesterday but I also said that they could get help at the reference desk if I were not available.
Please let me know if you have any questions.