1. LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OCT 2012 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library-workshops/handouts

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

3. COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE Research  Guides @ LU  Business  Company Information 3

4. COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION 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 articles on business fields such as marketing, management, accounting, finance, economics, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc. Factiva [Companies/Markets] 4

5. COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION INTERNET RESOURCES: Company Information (from Etnet) Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/stocks/ci_database.php http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/stocks/ci_database.php Company Histories (from Answers.com) http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories Research Hub [from finet.com] http://www.finet.hk/mainsite/index.htm 5

6. ANNUAL REPORTS DATABASE: Osiris INTERNET RESOURCES: Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm HKExNews http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/s earch_active_main.asp# http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/s earch_active_main.asp# 6

7. COMPANY FINANCIALS DATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Osiris LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal 7

8. COMPETITORS Hoover’s Online Business Source Premier – Company Profiles Factiva [Companies/Markets] Osiris 8

9. STOCK PRICES DATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Bloomberg Terminal INTERNET RESOURCES: ETNet http://www.etnet.com.hk Money18 http://money18.on.cc/index.html Yahoo! HongKong Finance http://hk.finance.yahoo.com Google Finance http://www.google.com.hk/finance? 9

10. CREDIT RATINGS Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. 10 Current data

11. COMPANY NEWS Databases: Factiva (English & Chinese) LexisNexis Academic (English) LexisNexis Academic Hoover’s Online (English) Hoover’s Online Wisenews (English & Chinese) 11

12. 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 12

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