• Companies are either privately or publicly held. The majority of US companies are privately held. Publicly held companies are required by law to disclose information to the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC), the Federal agency that regulates public companies.
  
• Private companies are not required to disclose information to the SEC.
• This makes publicly held companies much easier to research than private.

We will be going into library databases to review this material. Library databases can be accessed either within the library or outside of the library with your SJPL Barcode or SJSU ID and PIN #

Check Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar database to see if your company is private or public. We do not subscribe to the International section for D & B; you will have to look elsewhere ( if your company is an international company).