BUS 410: Financial Institutions

Spring 2012

Jenna WalshBusiness Librarian, SFU Surreyjmwalsh@sfu.ca

Agenda

1) Library resources to find information about financial institutions

2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Who might publish the information you want?

Research Guide:BUS 410 Research Guide News sources / Press releases Company Profiles / Financial data

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/subject-guides/business/bus410

News / Press ReleasesCanadian Newsstand Fulltext articles and transcripts from Canadian newspapers

and news shows From the late 1985 to a day or two agoLexisNexis News (general and business/industry) from around the

world Access to Hoover’s Company Reports Business Source Complete industry and general business news publications detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest

companies

Research Guide:BUS 410 Research Guide News sources / Press releases Company Profiles / Financial

data

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/subject-guides/business/bus410

Company Profiles / Financial DataMINT Global 50,000 publicly-traded companies 5 million private companies Detailed financials, as well as links to Financial Times news

storiesHoover’s Company Reports (via LexisNexis) Profiles of thousands of companies Key financial details, lists of top officers, and main

competitorsDatamonitor 360 Company reports, including SWOT analyses for about 10%

of the companies

Agenda1) Library resources to find information

about financial institutions2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Write your paper & cite your sources

APA guides and plagiarism tutorial

APA guides

Plagiarism tutorial

Writing and avoiding plagiarism If you don’t know how to correctly cite a

document, feel free to ask a librarian for help.

If you want help with writing/structuring your paper or quoting/paraphrasing documents, see the Student Learning Commons.

Workshops One-to-one appointments Drop-in consultations

Is this plagiarism?Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust

has occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838).

Student A’s paper:If a serious violation of public trust occurs,

lying is often the result because this action invites concealment (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Is this plagiarism?Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust

has occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838).

Student A’s paper:If a serious violation of public trust occurs,

lying is often the result because this action invites concealment (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Is this plagiarism?Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust has

occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838).

Student B’s paper:Organizations often feel compelled to lie about

their actions when they are discovered to have taken advantage of the public (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Avoiding plagiarism If you include any ideas or sentences in

your paper that come from elsewhere (e.g., articles, books, websites), you need to acknowledge those sources.

Citing a document incorrectly is always better than not citing it.

Leave yourself time to cite your sources.

Agenda1) Library resources to find information

about financial institutions2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Getting help

Getting Help Ask anyone at the reference desk in any

of the three campus libraries Use our Ask a Librarian services (via the

Library home page) to contact a librarian (by phone, IM, or email).

Contact : Jenna Walshjmwalsh@sfu.ca

Class? Due Date? Where have you searched? How have you searched? Found anything close to what you need?