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Ship to Shore – Advanced Business-Related Information Literacy Skills LexisNexis Business-Related Information Literacy Skills Introduction LexisNexis Business information Court cases Medical information News Reference Congress Statistics You will learn: How to search LexisNexis’
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Ship to Shore – AdvancedBusiness-Related Information Literacy Skills LexisNexis Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED Business-Related Information Literacy Skills
Introduction • LexisNexis • Business information • Court cases • Medical information • News • Reference • Congress • Statistics Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
You will learn: • How to search LexisNexis’ • Magazines and newspapers • Company profiles • Directories • How to focus your searches by choosing the correct keywords and by using limiters Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
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Financial Reports • Disclosure Reports: Disclosure(R) Online Database contains business and financial information extracted from annual and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for over 10,000 publicly-owned companies. • NAARS - Annual Reports 1984 - 1995: Corporate annual reports (over 80,000 reports) beginning in 1984, including portions of companies annual reports to shareholders. • NAARS - Annual Reports 1972 - 1984, Archived: Contains an archive of corporate annual reports (over 48,000 reports) ending in June 1984 and beginning in 1972. • Stock Reports: Security ownership reports for more than 10,000 US stocks, and earnings projections for more than 3,000 US corporations. Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
Company Profiles • Bankruptcy Reports: US companies with more than $50 million in assets that are in bankruptcy, including company profiles, reorganization plans, and other news. • Hoover's Company Reports: Contains invaluable information for over 15,000 major public and private companies worldwide. • International Company Reports: All non-US company profiles, covering more than 30,000 companies from Asia and Pacific Rim, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and North and South America. • Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions: Access to strategic and financial information on more than 9,300 publicly-held companies. • US Public Companies: US public company profiles, covering more than 10,000 publicly traded companies. • US Private Companies: US private company profiles, covering more than 200,000 private companies. Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
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SEC Filings • SEC 10-K Reports: Annual reports filed 90 days after the end of a company's fiscal year. • SEC 10-Q Reports: Quarterly report filed for each of the first three quarters of a company's fiscal year. • SEC 8-K Reports: A report of unscheduled material events or corporate changes deemed of importance to shareholders or to the SEC. • SEC 20-F Reports: Filed annually by most foreign issuers six months after the end of their fiscal year. • SEC Annual Reports to Shareholders: The principal document used by major corporations to communicate directly with their shareholders. • SEC Filings - Proxy Statements: Proxy statements provide official notification to a company's shareholders of matters to be voted upon at the company's annual meeting. • SEC Filings - Prospectuses: A document that must be made available to investors before the sale of any security is initiated. • SEC Filings - Registration Statements: These are used to register securities before they are offered to investors and permit trading among investors. • SEC Filings - Williams Act Filings: Forms which are submitted to provide disclosure for the purchase, by direct acquisition or tender offer, of substantial blocks of the securities of publicly held companies. Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
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Keyword Company Info Directories Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
Directories • Federal Business Opportunities: This contains announcements of proposed government procurements, contract awards, subcontracting leads, sales of government property and foreign business opportunities. • NAICS-SIC Directory: The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is the statistical classification standard underlying all establishment-based federal economic statistics classified by industry. This directory contains lists of industry classifications that cover both the SIC and the NAICS system. These lists allow you to search the category, or the code and compare the SIC codes to NAICS codes. • The American Marketplace: A reference that provides marketing analysis based upon government statistics. • World Business Opportunities: Information on business and investment opportunities around the world including government contracts, procurement proposals, investment projects, potential investors and potential customers. Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
competitors • Directory – SIC • Company Profiles – search by SIC • Company Profiles also name competetiors Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
You have learned: • How to search LexisNexis’ • Magazines and newspapers • Company profiles • Directories • How to focus your searches by choosing the correct keywords and by using limiters Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED
If you need help • If you have any problems or questions about this module, please call a Librarian at 477-1474 (ext. 1474 on campus). • Librarians are also available via email by choosing ASK US on the Library’s web page. Shippensburg University, Ship to Shore - ADVANCED