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Finding Company Information: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn basic research strategies and discover various resources and databases for finding company information including company profiles, competitors, annual reports, stock prices, credit ratings, and company news.

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Finding Company Information: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. LIB340 Finding Company Information Lingnan University Library Feb 2013 TERENCE CHEUNG – REFERENCE LIBRARIAN http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library-workshops/handouts

  2. OUTLINE • Basic Research Strategies • Company Information • Company Profiles • Competitors • Annual Reports & Company Financials • Stock Prices • Credit Ratings • Company News • China Company Information

  3. AFTER THE WORKSHOP, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO: • Know basic research strategies. • Learn different categories of company information. • Have an overview on resources available for finding company information. • Use some selected databases to find company information.

  4. What library service do you use? What sources do you use for your research? Any problems?

  5. Make the things right at the beginning. Good investment of time. http://tomfishburne.com/2012/11/creative-brief-2.html

  6. What do you do before you do a research? Don’t need all the answers at the beginning!!!

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

  8. CompanyProfiles & 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.

  9. CompanyProfiles & 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 • Company Histories (from Answers.com) http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories

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

  11. Hoover’s Online exercise • 1. Can you find me the gross profit of Bossini (the Hong Kong clothing retail store) in 2012? • 2. Try to build a list of china listed insurance companies with annual sales greater or equal to USD8,000 million. Tell me how many companies did you find and what’s their name.

  12. Annual Reports & Company Financials DATABASE: • Osiris • Datastream • Factiva [Companies/Markets] • LexisNexis Academic • Compustat • Bloomberg Terminal INTERNET RESOURCES: • HKExNews http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/csm/search.asp?LangCode=en&location=companySearch • Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm

  13. Stock Prices DATABASES: • Datastream • Bloomberg Terminal INTERNET RESOURCES: • ETNet http://www.etnet.com.hk • Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/5:HK

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

  15. Company News Databases: • Factiva (English) • LexisNexis Academic (English) • Wisesearch (English & Chinese)

  16. LexisNexis Academic exercise • There is a news in South China Morning Posting in December 2012 mentioning the number of sales of iPhone 5 in the first week of official sales in mainland China. • Can you locate this news and tell me how many iPhone have been sold in the first week in mainland China?

  17. 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

  18. NEED HELP? Ask A Librarian http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/research/ask-librarian Integrated Helpdesk Email: refstaff@ln.edu.hk, Tel: 2616-8571 Chat Reference Service 2pm-5pm, Mon-Fri Research Consultation Servicehttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/research-consultation-service

  19. Thank you for your time and the most important, your patience.

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