Financial data

In the United States, public companies are required to report their financial performance quarterly, with an annual report required at the end of the fiscal year. Non-U.S. companies with a stock trading on a U.S. stock exchange must also file quarterly and annual statements. Even foreign, public companies not on a U.S. exchange file annual reports for use by investors, analysts, and employees. Annual and quarterly reports are often found on the companies websites listed under investor relations. In the United States, these reports are available from the Securities and Exchange Commission (http //www.sec.gov) at no charge. Financial information on private companies is much more difficult to find. Users must depend on disclosure by the private company or rely on primary research vendors for information. 

There are dozens of resources that provide financial data. Free, web-based resources that aggregate news, financial, and analyst information in a user-friendly format include Quicken (http //www.quicken.com), Bloomberg (http //www.bloomberg.-com), and CNNMoney (http //money.cnn.com). Of particular note is Yahoo Finance (http //finance.yahoo.com) which has links to Yahoo Finance in Europe and Asia. The following resources generally require a fee or subscription for use. 

Dun s Financial Records Plus . The D B Corporation, 103 JFK Parkway, Short Hills, NJ 07078, U.S.A. Phone +1 800-234-3867. E-mail custserv dnb.com. URL http //www.dnb. com. D B collects information on 75 million firms in 214 countries around the world. In addition to public companies, D B also covers private companies who submit their data to D B. Dun s Financial Records Plus (available online from DIALOG) has three years of comprehensive financial information. 

Hoover s. Phone - -1 866464-3202. URL http //www.hoovers. com. Hoover s is an online database of over 12 miUion public and private companies. There is in-depth coverage of about 40,000 of the world s top businesses. Coverage can include company overview, executives, financials, competitors, company history, and news. Users can search by company name, stock ticker symbol, keyword, and executive name. Access is available through Internet subscription. 

MultexNet. Reuters. Phone +1 800-721-2225. URL http // www.multexnet.com. MultexNet, a Reuters service, is a resomce for broker research, morning notes, independent research, consensus and detailed estimates, and financial information. The Web-based database covers more than 25,000 global companies. There are also finks to SEC filings, a screening tool to create target company fists and the option to set up alerts. There are also solutions for portfoho managers and buy-side analysts. 

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Data collected for the finalist tollers should be audited and verified once more to ensure no misrepresentation has occurred. Often a more detailed analysis of financial data is undertaken. The guidelines shown in Table 2-1 are rules of thumb to use when interpreting a Dunn Bradstreet (D B) report. 

Financial data on their own provide only an historical record of the transactions of a business. The accounts of a company published annually are mainly of historical value but must, by law, include comparisons with the figures for a prior corresponding period. 

In November 1997, Ferrari (France) invited Solvay to help them to solve a problem of recycling PVC coated textile for light mobile structures, especially ones used for shortterm applications (advertising). The Vinyloop is aphysical recycling process making use of an organic solvent to separate the PVC compound from the other materials in a PVC composite. It is a closed loop process the solvent is completely recycled. Aspects outlined include history and a description of the process, precipitated PVC compound evaluation and financial data... 

In Sperry-Rand Corp (12) vs. Electronics Concepts, Inc., et al. the ex-employees had taken valuable data on radar antennas. One had learned what he knew at Sperry-Rand and went into competition with Sperry-Rand—even competing on a government bid with stolen knowledge of the exact amount of the Sperry-Rand bid. Both damages and an injunction were awarded to Sperry. These ex-employees willfully and deliberately and with full knowledge of the unlawfulness of their acts took both technical and financial data. 

Our example uses the data from Bowman and Narayandas (2004). The customer firms are more than 300 industrial customers of firms that provide metal processing, fabrication, and distribution services. The customer firms are in industries that include manufacturing, construction, transportation, aerospace, and electrical. As a group, these customers use over sixty different vendors. A sponsoring vendor firm provided financial data and details of its efforts at the customer account level, enabling us to link vendor resource commitments to vendor performance and customer profitability. 

Table 11.3 presents summary descriptive statistics for those relationships for which financial data were available. Descriptive statistics are provided for sales revenue, operating profit, operating margin, concentration of purchases with the top two vendors, share of purchases with the largest alternative vendor, and overall satisfaction with the largest alternative vendor. Again, to protect confidentiality, contribution margin is not disclosed. 

Table 11.3. Descriptive statistics by respondent categories given availability of financial data... 

For purposes of enforcing the law, FDA inspectors may at any time inspect any non-prescription or prescription drug. For both, FDA inspectors may see all records and documents except those that relate to financial data, sales data other than shipment data, pricing data, personnel data and research data. An FDA inspector may spend whatever amoimt of time is necessary to complete such an inspection - even weeks or months. Where significant enforcement issues have been found, FDA inspectors have been known to spend more than a year at a single establishment. 

Market research, strategy consulting, round robin financial data of major fine chemical companies... 

However, despite these variations in accounting, the financial data presented in the annual reports of the sample firms provided a basis for establishing R D expenditure patterns. No attempt was made to compare one firm to another. Instead, the data were used to access the pattern of R D expenditures for each individual firm for the years 1970-1976 and for the sample firms as a whole. 

A recent survey by Chemical and Engineering News noted that 19 companies account for about 80% of the chemical industry s sales and more than 90% of the entire industry s R D dollars. Therefore, fifteen firms were taken from a universe of 36 large industrial chemical firms. (See section on methodology.) In 1976, these fifteen firms accounted for 71.6% of R D expenditures. Finally, it should be noted that many of these companies are diversified and are engaged in various activities other than chemicals. Financial data presented in annual reports are often aggregate data and, consequently, it is difficult to determine the impact on R D related only to chemical activities. Although many companies have chemicals as one of their products, the companies selected for this project are predominantly involved in the manufacture and sale of industrial chemicals. 

Vol. 539 N. Hautsch, Modelling Irregularly Spaced Financial Data. XII, 291 pages. 2004. 

Financial data and other corporate information can change quickly. A book of this type can be no more current than the data that was available as of the time of editing. Consequently, the financial picture, management and ownership of the firm(s) you are studying may have changed since the date of this book. For example, this almanac includes the most up-to-date sales figures and profits available to the editors as of late-2008. That means that we have typically used corporate financial data as of the end of 2007. 

Financial data and vital statistics must have been available to the editors of this book, either directly from the company being written about or from outside sources deemed reliable and accurate by the editors. A small number of companies that we would like to have included are not listed because of a lack of sufficient, objective data. 

A unique publication provides financial benchmarks for independent community pharmacies. The NCPA-Pjizer Digest is an annual survey that compiles and summarizes financial data from independent pharmacies nationwide (NCPA, 2007). Data from the past 2 years of the NCPA-Pjizer Digest are used as a benchmark to describe the typical independent community pharmacy, as shown in Table 32-1. In general, the typical independent community pharmacy has a total sales volume of over 3.6 million, of which 92 percent is derived directly from prescription sales. Over... 

The data required to run the model were substantial. They included financial data of individual companies, fuel use and C02 emissions per product, in addition to the price of an average product. Other data inputs included the own-price elasticity of demand, the total volume of product consumed, the number of firms manufacturing the product, and the proportion of total consumption supplied by imports. 

Figure 2. Different sets of financial data can be more easily understood and compared graphically.

Functions (eg., statistical, financial, data regression, matrix operations, and database functions)... 

Take with you lists of staff, institutional/public officials, insurance and financial data, inventory, emergency plan, and supplies. 

Electronic records are defined here as those records used for GxP decision/review processes or regulatory submissions. Appendix 15A helps identify examples. Financial, Data Protection, and other non-GxP records held electronically may also have regulatory requirements, but these are not... 

Over the Long Term. Traditional financial data is historically. .. well, historical. A desirable future state demands forward-oriented indicators. Companies have the opportunity to use nonfinancial variables as bellwethers just as sensors can monitor pollution levels in real time, helping to warn of impending problems and, when combined with databases and analytical techniques, they can help to establish causality. 

Financial data Product, utility and raw material cost, cost of waste treatment, operating and maintenance cost are available as part of the company s financial statements. 

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