Australian Company information

• Australian Bureau of statistics (ABS) [2]: statistics on population, GDP, internet usage, religion, tourism, inflation, income, indigenous, labour force, crime.
   
• ASIC: Australian Securites and Investments Commission [3]: ASIC is an independent Commonwealth Government body that regulates financial services. The main roles of ASIC are:
  • Register companies and managed investment schemes,
  • Grant Australian financial services licences and Australian credit licences,
  • Register auditors and liquidators
  • maintain publicly accessible registers of information about companies, financial services licensees and credit licensees; and,
  • Make rules aimed at ensuring the integrity of financial markets.

• ASX: Australian Securities Exchange [4]: The Australian Stock Exchange is a marketplace for the trading of Australian and international shares and other financial instruments. It provides updates regarding the price of shares and other company information.

• Business Source Complete [5]: Contains peer reviewed journal articles on all aspects of international business.

• Company360 [6]: Annual reports of Australian companies along with additional company data.

• DatAnalysis [7] and FinAnalysis [8]: Detailed Australian company information data including:
  • Corporate history and listing details
  • Cross directorships and committee composition
  • Substantial shareholders’ trading history
  • Takeover details from 1995
  • Corporate Calendar for key events
  • Industry comparisons
  • Price history and graphs
  • 10 years of financial data
  • ASX Announcements from 1998 in PDF
  • Over 45,000 annual reports

• EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit [9]: Contains products such as Viewswire, Risk briefing, Executive briefing, Industry reports and forecasts.

• Factiva [10]: Contains international newspapers and comprehensive Industry reports.

• IBIS World [11]: Contains industry research reports and provides strategic insights and analysis on over 500 Australian industries. It has Australia’s most comprehensive selection of reports, covering the entire economy — from Accounting Services to Zoological Gardens. Each report consists of thirty to forty pages of key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and historical performance, a five-year forecast, major industry participants and more.

• MintGlobal [12]: Company financials for large companies
  • Financial strength indicators
  • Directors and contacts
  • Original filings/images
  • Stock data
  • Detailed corporate and ownership structures
  • Industry research
  • Business and company-related news
  • Mergers and acquisitions deals and rumours

• Newsbank [13]: Full text of overseas and Australian newspapers with comprehensive coverage of Australian local press.

• Trove [14]: Australian library holdings and online resources including books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives.