Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Expenses, Income, Ratios

• Business Reference Guide: The Essential Guide to Pricing Businesses and Franchises
  Print resource.  Provides short profiles on over 620 types of businesses.  Information often includes operational benchmarks, trends, and business advantages and disadvantages.
  
  
• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios(REF HF 5681 R25 A45)
  Print resource.  Annual publication covering over 190 industries.  Organized by asset size (e.g., Under $500,000) and provides data on operating costs and operating income as well as selected financial ratios and financial factors (e.g., Profit Margin (After Income Tax)
  
  
• Business Expenses Survey
  Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau and published every 5 years.  Provides percentages for business expenses in 7 categories (e.g., "Transportation, Repair and Maintenance, Printing, Advertising").  Organized by NAICS.
  
  
• Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers (REF HF5430.3.D65 2006)
  Print resource.  Income and expense data for different types of retailers.  Table of contents (pdf).
  
  
• Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios Online
  Reviews businesses in about 800 industries.  Organized by SIC.  Provides 14 ratio indicators of solvency, efficiency, and profitibiliby.   
  
  
• Financial Studies of the Small Business (HF5681.R25 F55 2005)
  Print resource.  Data from financial statements from independent Certified Public Accounting firms.  Covers over 65 different types of businesses in the categories Retail, Wholesalers, Services, Contractors, Professional Services, Manufacturers, and Other (e.g., Farm).  Organized by Asset Size, Sales Volume, 25% Most Profitable, and Five-Year Trend.  Latest edition 2005.
  
  
• The Manager's Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to Essential Business Formulas and Ratios Ebook.
  
  
• RMA Annual Statement Studies : Including Comparative Historical Data and Other Sources of Composite Financial Data (REF HF 5681 B2 R6)
  Print resource.  Published once a year, this resource reviews over 700 industries organized by NAICS.  Data derived from statements from financial institutions.  Each industry further organized into 6 asset sizes.  Includes 16 ratio indicators of assets, liabilities, and income.
  
  
• Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center
  Online.  From the IRS.