| 1. Determine
if your company is publicly held, private or a subsidiary:
LexisNexis
Academic
Click on the "Business"
tab and search for the company name. The results will identify if
your company is public or private or a subsidiary.
- Publicly owned Companies sell shares
of stock in the company that are traded on various exchanges. They
are required to report financial information to the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC).
- Privately held companies are not
required to divulge any information and you will need to search
for articles about them in newspapers and magazines.
- Financial information for subsidiary
companies is usually not available, but is merged into the financial
information of the parent company.
If your
company is publicly held, financial information will be available
in:
LexisNexis
Academic -
Search under the "Business" tab for your company and then
click on the Financial Information link.
Factiva
- Under the "Companies/Markets" green tab choose
the white Company tab to search for the company name or ticker symbol.
Mergent
Online -
includes 11,000 public companies and their SEC filings, financials
for 15 years, and Annual Reports.
Thomson
One - access to quotes, earnings estimates, financial
fundamentals, market moving news, transaction data, corporate filings,
ownership profiles and research from industry-leading sources.
Annual Reports are available
in:
| Mergent
Online
- many U.S. companies annual
reports for the past 7 years. |
Online |
|
| Company File
- a limited number of paper copies of Annual
Reports; some are Ohio companies. |
Company File |
2nd floor |
| Fortune 500
Annual Reports 1987-2001 |
Microfiche |
2nd floor |
| LexisNexis
Academic includes links
to SEC 10K reports. |
Online |
|
Thomson
One
SEC 10K filings and some current ARS in pdf
format and more. |
Online |
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If your company
is public, private or a subsidiary, articles from magazines, journals
and newspapers will be found in:
Business
Source Complete - Indexes 4,156
Journals & magazines; 3,252 are full text and 1,644 are
peer-reviewed. It includes 17, 651 Company profiles and 17,558
Industry Reports.
LexisNexis
Academic- full-text articles
from national, regional and world newspapers and magazines.
Factiva -
has the latest news reported in newswires, newspapers from every
corner of the globe and general publications like The Economist,
Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Business Week.
America's
Newspapers - selected full text articles from regional
newspapers.
Newspaper
Source - includes 30 national newspapers and selected
full text from 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
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