Understanding the Corporate Annual Report
Anatomy of an Annual Report Part of IBM's 'Guide to Annual Reports.’
Understanding Annual Reports (General Electric)
Mergent Online
Offers current and older annual reports of domestic and international public companies in pdf format. The start date varies; most companies are covered beginning in the mid-1990s.
For earlier reports, go to LexisNexis® Academic - info - see the box on this page for more information.
Archives
SCETI: Corporate Annual Reports contains facsimiles of corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Investor Relations Information Network (IRIN) provides access to electronic annual reports. More than 10,300 current and historical annual reports are available through IRIN.
ProQuest Annual Reports
ProQuest Annual Reports is a collection of full image (pdfs) annual reports. Coverage: 1986 - current in ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - info
Find an Annual Report
The most straightforward way is to contact the 'Investors' Services Office' of your target company:
The department may be called Investor Relations, Shareholder Services or another name. You can get the phone number and address from one of our print directories in the Library, or from our Mergent Online or Hoover's databases. Hoover's also provides a link to each company's investor relations office on the basic financial information page. Free (3rd party) sources of reports include:
This
site covers the majority of the Fortune 500 companies. This service
offers online access to the annual reports, and links to investor
relations pages, where you may request a hard copy annual report
directly from the company.
A service of Wall Street Journal Online. Download or request hardcopy annual reports.
CAROL
is a free service offering links to the annual reports of a variety of
European and U.S. companies. Free registration is required. You cannot
request hard copy annual reports through this site.
Request free hardcopy annual reports from over 3,600 publicly traded companies. Search by company name or industry.
LexisNexis Academic
The
Annual Reports file contains corporate annual reports (over 80,000
reports) beginning in 1984. The annual report file includes portions of
companies annual reports to shareholders, grouped by fiscal year, with
balance sheets dated July 1, through June 30. The file provides
financial statements, footnotes, auditor's opinion, material incorporated by reference and the management responsibility letter.
The Archived Annual Reports file contains corporate annual reports (over 48,000
reports) ending in June 1984 and beginning in 1972. The annual report file
includes portions of companies annual reports to shareholders, grouped by fiscal
year, with balance sheets dated July 1, through June 30. The file provides
financial statements, footnotes, auditor's opinion, material incorporated by
reference and the management responsibility letter.
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