1. Finding company information Ngee Ann Polytechnic Library

2. 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. 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. 4 Information Sources Data/Articles from electronic databases Find resources in the Library using OPAC

5. Finding Singapore company information

6. 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

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

8. Accessing the Singapore Financials database

9. Finding company information Click on the title of the company

10. Finding company information

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

12. Find company information URL : http://www.sgx.com/wps/portal/sgxweb/home/company_disclosure

13. Finding financial information – Balance sheet

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

15. Finding financial information - Income statement

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

17. Finding company information - Cash Flow statement

18. Finding financial ratios

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

20. Trending – Financial trending

21. Trending – Ratios

22. Trending – What if analysis

23. Detailed Financials – Reports

24. Detailed Financials – Income, Cash Flow and Balance sheet

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

26. Detailed Financials - Statement by Directors Statement of changes in Equity

27. Industry benchmarking

28. Factiva database – newspaper articles

29. Factiva database - find industry information

30. 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? ____________________________ ____________________________

31. Factiva database – selected company news

32. 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? ___________________________ ___________________________

33. Citation styles

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