Obtaining Financial Information from the Library External decision makers have a number of sources a of information available to them. A knowledge of the infor-

~ mation available and how the various types of information differ from one another can be invaluable in selecting the information to be used for particular types of decisions.

a. Turn to the financial statements and other information from the annual report of Gateway, presented in Appendix A of this textbook. Look through the information to determine what is provided.

b. Go to your library and look up Gateway in Moody’s Industrial Manual and compare the information provided by Moody’s to that contained in the annual report in Appendix A. What information is included in the company’s annual report that it is not included in Moody's? What information is provided in Moody's that is not provided in the annual report? Who might find the additional information contained in the annual report useful?

c. Look up Gateway’s stock in the securities-price section of The Wall Street Journal or another newspaper that prints such information. What information is included there?

Can that information also be found in the annual report or Moody's?

d. Look up the company in the Value Line Investment Survey. What information is included there? Can that information also be found in the annual report or Moody's?

What information is provided by Value Line that is not provided in the annual report, Moody's, or The Wall Street Journal?

e. Briefly describe the differences in the nature of the information provided to decision makers in these four sources.