LIB340 Finding Company Information

1. LIB340 Finding Company Information Feb 2011 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2011/spring/powerpoint/

2. Outline • Company Information • Company Financials • Annual Reports • Competitors • Stock Quotes • Credit Ratings • Company News • China Company Information

3. CompanyInformation DATABASES: • Hoover’s Online (Academic Version) • Information on over 28 million 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. • Factiva [Companies/Markets]

4. CompanyInformation INTERNET RESOURCES: • Company Information (from Etnet) • Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong http://www.etnet.com.hk/ • Yahoo! HongKong Finance - Company Information • http://hk.finance.yahoo.com • Research Hub [from finet.com] • http://www.finet.hk/mainsite/index.htm

5. Annual Reports DATABASES: • Osiris INTERNET RESOURCES: • Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] • http://www.irasia.com/listco/hk/ • HKExNews • http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/search_active_main.asp# PRINTED RESOURCES: • Current issues (printed version) shelved separately under "Listed Company Collection" in 1/F Reading Room

6. Company Financials DATABASES: • Datastream • Factiva [Companies/Markets] • Osiris • LexisNexis Academic INTERNET RESOURCES: CAROL: COMPANY ANNUAL REPORTS ON LINE • Provides direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. Access is free but you need to register first. • http://www.carol.co.uk/

7. Competitors • Hoover’s Online (Academic Version) • Business Source Premier – Company Profiles • Factiva [Companies/Markets]

8. Stock Quotes DATABASES: • Datastream • Factiva [Companies/Markets] INTERNET RESOURCES: • ETNet • http://www.etnet.com.hk • Money18 • http://money18.on.cc/index.html • Yahoo! HongKong Finance • http://hk.finance.yahoo.com • Google Finance • http://www.google.com.hk/finance?

9. Credit Ratings • Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.

10. Company News Databases: • Factiva (English & Chinese) • LexisNexis Academic(English) • Hoover’s Online (Academic Version)(English) • Wisenews (English & Chinese)

11. China Company & Industry 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. • QIN Database • An online financial database providing information on over 300,000 listed and unlisted companies in mainland China. • 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

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