1. LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION Lingnan University Library Feb 2014 The PowerPoint can be downloaded at: http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/il_handouts

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

3. 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

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. 4

5. Company Profiles & Information (2) 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 International Directory of Company Histories (from Answers.com) http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories Research Hub [from finet.com] http://www.finet.hk/mainsite/research/RH/ 5

6. Annual Reports DATABASE: Osiris INTERNET RESOURCES: HKExNews http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/se arch_active_main.asp# Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm 6

7. Company Financials DATABASES: Osiris Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal INTERNET RESOURCES: HKExNews http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/csm/search.asp?LangCode=en&loc ation=companySearch 7

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

9. In-class quiz Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (LIB340: Part A)here http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/quiz 9

10. Stock Prices DATABASES: Datastream Bloomberg Terminal Factiva [Companies/Markets] INTERNET RESOURCES: ETNet http://www.etnet.com.hk Yahoo! HongKong Finance http://hk.finance.yahoo.com Google Finance http://www.google.com.hk/finance? Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/companies/country/hong-kong/ 10

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. 11 Current data

12. Company News Databases: Factiva (English) Factiva LexisNexis Academic (English) LexisNexis Academic WiseSearch (English & Chinese) 12

13. 13 Guess what… It’s Quiz Time again! Click here or type the following link to accesshere the Quiz (LIB340: Part B) http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/quiz

14. 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 14

15. Company information guide Research  Guides @ LU  Business  Company Information 15 http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/company_information

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