SOBA 205: Professional Communications (Spring 2021)

First Research is the leading provider of industry intelligence. First Research's knowledge tools (Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles) are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.

Provides access to local and regional company news. Covering both private and public companies, Business Newsbank's cumulative monthly updates provide current full-text articles from more than 400 business journals, newspapers and wire services for all types of business research.

Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more. Startup and established businesses alike can find answers from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business."

Contains proprietary information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Includes industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers and more.