Research Guides: LCOB ERM: Guide Home

Welcome

This guide will get you started on your research process for Enterprise Risk Management. Please refer to your professor and syllabus for detailed information for the assignment.

Where to Find Public Records

Public records are documents filed by or on behalf of a company with state and local agencies. These include taxes, UCC documents, licenses, and legal filings. These documents generally are found at the State's Secretary of State website and/or the local clerk of court website. They are excellent places to locate company risk data. You can determine if your company is in good standing, has significant debt, and if it has legal problems.

Where to Find Company Information like Descriptions, Financials, Past Sales/Projections, Competitors

Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online is a database of public and private company reports and Industry studies. Search by: Company name¸ Ticker symbol¸ Keyword Person's last name. UC has access also to the Members Only sections which includes the Hoovers in-depth Company Profiles where you will find sales leads¸ business contacts¸ investment ideas¸ financial information and competitive intelligence information including a list of competitiors.
Coverage: Current
Note: This database works best in the chrome browser in Incognito mode.
ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk)
ORBIS contains 200 million companies worldwide and is searchable using hundreds of criteria. ORBIS contains the following types of data: company financials in a standardized format; financial strength indicators; Country profiles and outlook from the EIU; Directors and contacts; Original filings/images; Stock data for listed companies; detailed corporate structures; Market research; Business and company-related news; M&A deals and rumors. The database includes corporate family trees in diagram format. You can also create and analyze peer groups.

Additional databases with company profiles
Full list of UC databases that contain company profiles and descriptions.

Where to Find Industry Trends and Information

IBISWorld
IBISWorld Industry Reports provide in-depth industry analysis for over 700 U.S. industries in all major U.S. industry sectors at the 5-digit level of NAICS . Reports are updated regularly¸ and contain: key statistics¸ market characteristics¸ segmentation¸ industry conditions¸ industry performance¸ key competitors¸ key factors¸ and industry outlook and forecast.
Coverage - Current

Other Market Research Databases
To find whether we have the report you need, try your industry search first on "Alacra" or "marketResearch.com". Once you identify the report that you need, look for the publisher of the report on the list below. If it is listed, connect to the publisher's website and search for that report.

How to Find Company Information at the Library

Summon searches for books, articles, and other materials available at the library (most of it is online). It is a library version of Google.

You can find company information available at the library by using some of the following searches:

Kroger AND "company goals"
IBM AND "financial goals"
Cintas AND "core competencies"
"consumer trends" AND "frozen foods"