LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARYOCT 2013

LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION

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OUTLINE

Company Information Company Profiles CompetitorsAnnual Reports Company FinancialsStock PricesCredit Ratings Company News

China Company Information

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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

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COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE Research Guides @ LU Business Company

Information

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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 ProfilesIncludes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc. Plus journal articles on business fields such as marketing, management, accounting, finance, economics, etc.

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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION (2)

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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

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/index.htm

ANNUAL REPORTS

DATABASE:Osiris

INTERNET RESOURCES:HKExNews

http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/search_active_main.asp#

Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm

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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&location=companySearch

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COMPETITORS

Hoover’s OnlineOsirisBusiness Source Premier – Company ProfilesFactiva [Companies/Markets]

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

IN-CLASS QUIZ

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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/

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

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Current data

COMPANY NEWS

Databases:Factiva (English)LexisNexis Academic (English)WiseSearch (English & Chinese)

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Guess what…It’s Quiz Time again!

Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (LIB340: Part B)http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/quiz

CHINA COMPANY INFORMATIONDatabases:

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.

CSMARCompany 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

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