Finding company information Ngee Ann Polytechnic Library

Group project – Fundamentals of Financial Management Nature of business - Company information (Local information) Macro environment - Newspaper clippings Industry outlook - Industry information Company business operations - Financial statements

3 Objective of Research Skills To teach fundamental search skills that will help you to retrieve the necessary information and materials needed for assignments and project work

4 Information Sources Data/Articles from electronic databases Find resources in the Library using OPAC

Finding Singapore company information

Find out the names of the companies by clicking on this link. Click on the link to access the database Accessing the Singapore Financials database

Q 1: Name of a company Choose one company from the list in Singapore Financials Direct. What is the name of the company? ____________________________

Accessing the Singapore Financials database

Finding company information Click on the title of the company

Finding company information

Q 2: Nature of business for the company What is the nature of business of the company that you have selected? ____________________________

Find company information URL :

Finding financial information – Balance sheet

Q 3: Balance sheet What is the latest total assets and liabilities of the company that you have selected? ____________________________

Finding financial information - Income statement

Q 4: Income statement What is the latest gross profit of the company that you have selected? ____________________________

Finding company information - Cash Flow statement

Finding financial ratios

Q 5: Financial ratios What is the latest gross profit margin (%) of the company that you have selected? ____________________________

Trending – Financial trending

Trending – Ratios

Trending – What if analysis

Detailed Financials – Reports

Detailed Financials – Income, Cash Flow and Balance sheet

Q 6: Detailed Financials – Balance sheet statement What is the latest total equities and liabilities of the company that you have selected? ____________________________

Detailed Financials - Statement by Directors Statement of changes in Equity

Industry benchmarking

Factiva database – newspaper articles

Factiva database - find industry information

Q 7: Factiva – Industry news Find the industry news of the company that you have selected. E.g. Retail etc. What is the title of ONE newspaper article that you have selected? ____________________________ ____________________________

Factiva database – selected company news

Q 8: Factiva – company news Find the news of the company that you have selected. What is the title of ONE newspaper article that you have selected? ___________________________ ___________________________

Citation styles

Q 9 & Q10: Cite the TWO newspaper articles that you have chosen in Q7 and Q8 ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Citation 1 Citation 2 _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________