Accounting Resources: Corporate Governance

This research guide provides high quality resources for Masters of Accounting program and others studying accounting at UC San Diego

Where can I get information related to corporate governance?

Ownership structure

LSEG Refinitiv Workspace
The Company profiles include a Company Tree display and Ownership Summary.for top owners, institutional holdings profiles and more.
Workspace is only available to UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff; only for non-commercial, academic research. It replaces ThomsonONE/Investext and Datastream, and now works across several browsers.

Register only once; otherwise login to Workspace using the main link. You may use web or desktop app version (includes the Workspace add-in for Excel), once you are registered.
Mergent Market Atlas
When you are looking at a company profile, click the Ownership tab to see institutional holdings, insiders and insider trades.
Gale Business Insights
Covers U.S and international, public and private companies.

Independent auditing firm

See the Investor Relations section of a public company's website, or try one of the resources below.

Mergent Market Atlas
Once you open an individual company's record, the auditor appears in the blue header, just under the address.

SEC's Edgar site

Management compensation

Hoover's Company Profiles in Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni yields a number of useful results, including our online access to Hoover's Company Profiles, which contain background on companies and their operations, plus lists their key executives (and their compensation where available), product lines and key competitors..

Mergent Market Atlas
Executives tab
LSEG Refinitiv Workspace
When you look up an individual company, then choose path Overview > Summary > Business Summary.. Detailed executive compensation for multiple years is displayed for clickable executive names (from DEF-14 and related filings), where available. Shortcut OFFD after company name search.
Workspace is only available to UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff; only for non-commercial, academic research. It replaces ThomsonONE/Investext and Datastream, and now works across several browsers.

Register only once; otherwise login to Workspace using the main link. You may use web or desktop app version (includes the Workspace add-in for Excel), once you are registered.

The above resources pick up the current compensation as reported to the SEC on their public website (no vpn required). Go here for more background on which forms to see if a., you can't find someone's, or b., you want additional years' info: http://www.sec.gov/answers/execomp.htm

Biographical information and news on executives and board members

Nexis Uni
There are three ways to search for biographical info. From most specific to more general, your options are: choose “Find an Executive,” or modify the search box drop-down to People, or click Biographies from the top menu on the landing page.

You may have to supplement with additional news items from one or more of these sources. Search individual executives' names as keywords to see if they've written anything, or been interviewed in the press:

Business Journals Metropolitan business news coverage across 44 U.S. geographies, including Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Sacramento, and San Francisco. Typical contents include articles on businesses and regional economies, events, and the annual Book of Lists publications culled from weekly compilations of top organizations within a metro area. This resource is great for studying competitors/partners or job-seeking. Quick links:
- San Francisco Book of Lists
- Silicon Valley Books of Lists
Note: Southern CA business news for San Diego, Orange County and additional Los Angeles regional titles are covered on other platforms. See this guide for those direct links.
Business Source Complete
Use Executive Interview Transcripts or the News tab to uncover profiles and interviews about business people.
Factiva Provides access to over 16,000 global sources including: * 1,000+ Global and local newspapers * 3,000+ Journals and magazines * 30,000+ Company Reports. Factiva.com delivers content in 27 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
Scroll down on the landing page to the Newsstand: US section for the latest content of Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Barron's & more.
Gale Business Insights GBI is a great first-stop for business and management information. It includes information on companies and industries from business and trade journals, academic journals, industry reports, newspapers, newsletters, and classic business reference sources. Search on a company name. In the search results, click on individual companies to open well-organized company profiles.
Regional Business News This database covers more than 80 business journals, newspapers, and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Can be searched separately or simultaneously with Business Source Complete (national and international coverage) by using the 'Choose Databases' option from the main search screen.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) (1984-present) Includes coverage of WSJ Eastern Edition, 1984-present; WSJ Online, 2010-present; and WSJ: The Magazine, 2011-present. This PQ version has a powerful and precise search engine for finding specific items or topics.