LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OCT 2013 LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION

OUTLINE Company Information Company Profiles Competitors Annual Reports Company Financials Stock Prices Credit Ratings Company News China Company Information 2

BY THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO: learn different categories of company information have an overview on resources available for finding company information use selected resources to find company information 3

COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE Research  LU  Business  Company Information 4

COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION (1) DATABASES: Hoover’s Online Information on over 45,000 public and private companies including company history, top officers, financials, competitors, location, company news, etc. Business Source Premier – Company Profiles Includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc. Plus journal articles on business fields such as marketing, management, accounting, finance, economics, etc. 5

COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION (2) 6 INTERNET RESOURCES: Company Information (from Etnet) Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong International Directory of Company Histories (from Answers.com) Research Hub [from finet.com]

ANNUAL REPORTS DATABASE: Osiris INTERNET RESOURCES: HKExNews arch/search_active_main.asp# Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] 7

COMPANY FINANCIALS DATABASES: Osiris Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal INTERNET RESOURCES: HKExNews ation=companySearch 8

COMPETITORS Hoover’s Online Osiris Business Source Premier – Company Profiles Factiva [Companies/Markets] 9

Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (LIB340: Part A)here IN-CLASS QUIZ 10

STOCK PRICES DATABASES: Datastream Bloomberg Terminal Factiva [Companies/Markets] INTERNET RESOURCES: ETNet Yahoo! HongKong Finance Google Finance Bloomberg.com 11

CREDIT RATINGS Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. 12 Current data

COMPANY NEWS Databases: Factiva (English) Factiva LexisNexis Academic (English) LexisNexis Academic WiseSearch (English & Chinese) 13

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CHINA COMPANY INFORMATION Databases: Wind China Financial Information Services(Wind.Net) Financial data and news for China including listed companies (A- share and B-share), fund, bond, macro economic data, etc. CSMAR Company financial information and trading statistics of listed companies in China. Includes both A Shares and B Shares.. China InfoBank ( 中國資訊行 ) An important source of economic and business data, legislations, statistics and news of Mainland China. Most information is in Chinese. 中國公司企業產品 中國經濟新聞 中國商業報告 15

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