Using financial portals for financial analysis in assignments

Quite a number of students need to access financial data of companies to conduct various kinds of analysis for assignment or for dissertation report works. I use the Bank of China website for illustration (re: http://www.bochk.com/web/home/home.xml?lang=en). First of all, you will see the home page as follows:

Exhibit 1:

Next, you will see the following screen:

Exhibit 2:

Then you see following screen:

Exhbit 3:

The 4th screen is as follows:

Exhibit 4:



The fifth screen is as follows:

Exhibit 5:

The 6th screen is as follows:

Exhibit 6:

Finally, refer to screen 7:

Exhibit 7:

In brief, you can view the financial data of a list company for 5 years; and you could compare the financial data of your chosen company (e.g. 494 Li and Fung) with companies in the same business sector. The data in this financial portal are available to the general public. I suggest that you log in and explore the financial portal facilities to have a firmer grasp of how to access the financial data.

You could consider to use the financial data in the financial portal for trend analysis or for multiple regression analysis, etc. In the process, you may need to gather other economic data to carry out your quantitative analysis. There are other financial portals that also provide financial data. I just use the financial portal of Bank of China for illustration of how to access listed companies' financial data. If you need further breakdown of a listed company's financial data, you could visit the company's official website and choose the option of "Investor Relationship" (or similar terms) to access the company's annual reports.