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Locating Company Addresses
1. Using the Thomas Register business directory at http://www.thomasnet.com, you can search by company name, brand name or product type to locate a company's street address or other basic company information (assets, activities, year founded, etc.) for more than 170,000 manufacturing companies.
To locate information about a company by name, be sure to click the "company Name" tab at the top of the home page before filling information into the search box. What it the "northern-most" street address of a company called "Alaska Diesel Electric"?
Enter your answer here:
Company Directories
2. Company directory sites compile background information (for public and/or private companies) and provide links to SEC filings, news articles, stock quotes, research reports and financials. Some of the company directory sites are free and others are either subscription based or pay-as-you-go (use your charge card on the Internet).
However, even the fee-based sites provide a great deal of free information. Search Hoovers' at http://www.hoovers.com to locate the "Fact Sheet" of Comcast Corporation How many subscribers does this cable television operator have?
Enter your answer here:
Private Companies
3. Using Private company research resource Vault.com,
(http://www.vault.com/companies/searchcompanies.jsp) find a private company called "Mad
Dogs & Englishmen". When you find it, click on the link and you
will be brought to a page on
Vault that has 3 choices of information for the company, "Stats,"
"Snapshot" and "Message Board" (Note: Vault Message
Board archives that are more than 60 days old are now restricted to Vault
Gold Members. All Message Board posts less than 60 days old, as well as
posting on the Message Boards, remain FREE.)
a) In what year did Robin Danielson become
president of Mad Dogs & Englishmen?
Choose
one.
1990
1991
1992
1993
b) While reading the "Snapshot,"
notice the links at the bottom of the page to "The Scoop," "Getting
Hired" and "Our Survey Says." Select "Getting Hired."
Is it a good time to get hired at Mad Dogs?
Choose
one.
Yes
No
Foreign Companies
4. Corporate Information at http://corporateinformation.com/ provides information on foreign public companies that includes a company profile and detailed financial information, all in English. Although the financials are reported in the foreign country's currency, it can be converted to U.S. dollars (or any other country's currency) making this site very helpful when trying to understand a foreign company's financials. (Access to the profiles no longer requires free registration.)
To locate information on a Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, you can use the "Company Name" search box. What were the company's sales in Japanese Yen for the most recent year available?
Enter your answer here:
5. Working off of Question 4, What is the unusual ticker symbol for Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing?
Enter your answer here:
Credit Ratings
6. Standard & Poor's provides mainly paid access to its credit rating and research and financial information about companies. Sometimes however, the abstracts of the S & P reports available through the free search offered on the home page can give you a fair amount of information. (You can request a free to access the full text of reports for a limited time - after which S & P will want to sell you a subscription to access that content.)
In a July 24, 2007 Industry Report, Standard & Poor's analyst Peggy Hwan Hebard lists her credit rating of this gaming industry leader. What was their rating?
Select One: B+/Stable /-- BB/Negative/-- BB+/Watch Neg/-- B/Developing/--
Stock Quotes
7. Yahoo Finance at http://quote.yahoo.com provides current (but delayed) stock quotes and a look-up function (by company name) to discover a company's ticker symbol to begin your research if you do not already know it.
What is the ticker symbol for Microsoft Corporation stock on the US NASDAQ exchange? Enter the symbol here:
8. Working off of Question 7, enter the Microsoft ticker symbol into the search box, and submit. Notice that you can access more than just the stock quote if you look in the blue column on the left-hand side of the screen labeled "More on [symbol]" box. Click on "Insider Transactions". Which insider proposed to sell 100,000 shares of stock on December 7, 2007?
Enter your answer here:
9. At http://finance.yahoo.com Yahoo Finance provides current and historical U.S. stock quotes (back to 1970), quotes from Canadian and other foreign exchanges, mutual and money market funds, corporate bonds and precious metals. Your Stock quote results can be sorted into a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly chart.
Clcik the "Historic Prices" link on the left-hand side of the screen to locate the company's stock price on February 15, 1990? Use your tab keys to fill in the dates in the boxes provided. To go back, use "shift/tab" if you skipped a box or need to change anything in the box.
Enter the dollar amount here:
SEC Filings
10. The Securities & Exchange Commission web site at http://www.sec.gov/search/search.htm, provides free access to all forms filed electronically with the SEC, as well as a search engine that allows searching by company name, or CIK code. The search can also be limited by date and/or form type. To access the search functions, use the form in the "Search for Company Filings" section of the site's search page.
On August 9, 2000, online auction house
EBay filed its 10-Q. Enter "Ebay" into the Company Name search
box, and then click "search". (NOTE: Rather than browsing through
all of the results, you can further limit your list once it is displayed.
by entering a date in the "Prior to" box you can only receive
results filed before the date you've indicated. Use the form YYYY/MM/DD
to tnter your limiting date.)
After locating the August 9 10-Q, you can open the filing by selecting
the "HTML" or "Text" version of the filing's description
to view. The HTML version is easier to read. By clicking on Document "e10-q.txt"
you can open the and read the 10-Q as it was filed with the SEC. Search
through the document to find what amount is listed as the company's "total
current assets" as of June 30, 2000?
Enter the dollar amount here:
State Corporate Records - California
11. Some states have placed corporate records on the Internet. Delaware has only recently done so. In California corporate, limited partnership and limited liability company records appeared on the web in December of 1999 at http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/list.html.
Many companies may have similar names, yet be unrelated. Serving the right company is very important. Who is the registered agent for the "active" IDEC California corporation that is doing business in California as "IDEC Corporation"?
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Trademark & Trade Names - Arizona
12.In Arizona, the Secretary of State offers free online searching of the State's registered trademark and trade name database at http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/TNT_Search_engine.dll for those wishing to check if a mark or name is available before attempting to register it.
If your client was opening a silver mining operation in Arizona, could they register the trade name "Arizona Precious Metals Mining Company?" Choose one. Yes No
County Fictitious Business Names
13.In some counties, such as Los Angeles County, limited FBN searches are free via the web. In L.A. County you can only discover if the FBN is being used and its file number (no ownership information is provided here). See http://www.lavote.net/CLERK/FBN_Search.cfm.
What is the FBN document number for "Gaming Pays"? Enter your answer here:
14. What was the FBN filing date for "Gaming Pays"? Enter your answer here:
News Meta-Sites
15. The Drudge Report at http://www.drudgereport.com links to dozens of major national and international newspapers and wires, such as Reuters and AP newswires, wires from China and Japan, Bloomberg and the National Enquirer.
Can you perform a search of stories on the Associated Press wire directly from The Drudge Report site? Choose one. Yes No
16.Can you perform a search of stories on the Bloomberg Wire directly from The Drudge Report site? Choose one. Yes No
17.The NewsLink site at NewsLink at http://newslink.org/news.html offers a browseable list of local, regional and international newspapers lists and links. Use the "By State" option in the page's center section to find the Albany, New York newspaper The Albany Times Union.
What is the newspaper's URL? Enter the URL here:
Business News
18. American City Business Journals, at http://www.bizjournals.com, publishes news in 41 local markets. You can conduct and "ARchive" search by using the "Archive" search link at the top of the home page.
Search for "Bill Clinton" (in quotation marks) to determine how far back the archives be searched?
Enter the earliest year for which archived articles are available here:
19. Does the "Archives" search near the top of the bizjournals.com home page, allow you to search all of the company's journals (markets) at once? Choose one. Yes No
Legal News
20. For links to legal newspapers, Law.com, provides a search engine to American Lawyer Media's 21 legal newspapers (including the American Lawyer, National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal) at http://www.law.com and other useful features about law firms such as rankings of firms (AmLaw 100).
Locate the link to the 2007 AmLaw 100 by
hovering over the "Legal Surveys" button on the left-hand side
of law.com's home page. Click the appropriate link to access the list.
Which firm is listed as having an average profit per equity partner of
$4.4 million?:
Pictures
21. Need a picture to go along with the news article? See Ditto.com at http://www.ditto.com, where you can search by keyword for any image you might be looking for.
The photos available from ditto.com cover a broad spectrum of subjects. Use the site's "Search" box to find a photo of Hillary Clinton connected to a story about "hair rights." In the photo, she is pictured with a Muppet. Which "Sesame Street" character is she with?
Hint: Searching for the "Hillary Clinton" and the term "hair rights" in quotation marks tells the ditto.com search engine to look for that exact phrase, and not hair and rights as separate keywords.
Enter your answer here:
Government Agencies Regulating Companies
22. Meta-sites maintained by academic institutions are usually an excellent source of links to Government information. Louisiana State University has compiled a very useful U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory site, where you can search by keyword, or browse by agency type (or an alphabetical list). It can be found at http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html.
This would ordinarily be a good place
to find a link to an Independent agency like the National Labor Relations
Board. Unfortunately, even the most diligent online researchers can have
trouble keeping up with the ever-changing structure of Federal Government
Web sites - and now LSU's link to the NLRB no longer works. You can visit
the site directly at http://www.nlrb.gov.
Once you're at the NLRB site you can search NLRB Board Decisions, Decisions
by its Administrative Law Judges (ALJ Decisions) and Advice Memos by clicking
the appropriate links in the column labeled "I'm a Labor Professional"
in the lower, middle portion of the home page.
Search for a Board Decision involving race
and slander and discrimination and the Alberici Construction Company.
What is the union "local" number involved in this decision?
Enter your answer here:
(Hint: When using the site's "Search" function, it is necessary to use boolean connectors such as "AND" or "OR" [in all caps] between keywords. Also note that this is an older decidion, so be sure that you're searching the "Bound Volumes" and not the "Slip Decisions.")
