Accounting
Financials & Ratios
- Abacus Data Repository This link opens in a new windowFinancial Performance Indicators for Canadian Business: Data on Canadian businesses, derived from Statistics Canada databases of financial statements. To access the data, click on Log In at the top right, then select Institution Name UBC under Affiliated User Login, then click Log in and enter your CWL. Next, type "Financial performance indicators" in the "Search this Dataverse Network" box.
- Business Performance and Ownership: Financial Statements and PerformanceStatistics Canada releases on financial performances of a variety of industries, including service industries
- Canadian Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (INKBR) This link opens in a new windowContains 2004-2011 Canadian business ratios, measured as relationships between companies' balance sheet and income statement categories, across industries classified as per Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.
- Financial and Taxation Statistics for EnterprisesRatios for Canadian industries from Statistics Canada
- Financial Performance Data (Industry Canada)Income statement and balance sheet data for a variety of industries in Canada. Good source for estimating costs for small to medium sized businesses
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowUS & international public company data, with enhanced features that allow you to compare companies and export data into software applications such as Excel. Annual reports. Analyst reports.
- Quarterly financial statistics for enterprisesScroll down to find the most recent "Quarterly financial statistics for enterprises".
Ratio for Canadian industries, from Statistics Canada - Robert Morris Associates - Annual Statement StudiesAvailable in print only, in the David Lam Library (HF5681.B2 R6)
- Standard and Poor's Analysts HandbookUse to find: debt to equity ratio, shareholders' equity, liabilities, inventory turnover
- Value Line Investment Survey1980-2009 (available in print only).
M&A, Analyst Reports
- Bloomberg This link opens in a new windowInvestment analysis database. Use to find stock prices, ratios, betas, business news, freight rates, stock exchange members, etc. Available on specific machines in the Canaccord Learning Commons, Wayne Deans Investment Analysis Centre (current Sauder students and faculty and staff only) and UBCO Library.
- Standard & Poor's Capital IQ This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database of global public and private companies, banks, investment firms and M&A transactions.
Prices
- Bloomberg This link opens in a new windowInvestment analysis database. Use to find stock prices, ratios, betas, business news, freight rates, stock exchange members, etc. Available on specific machines in the Canaccord Learning Commons, Wayne Deans Investment Analysis Centre (current Sauder students and faculty and staff only) and UBCO Library.
- Datastream This link opens in a new windowInternational economic, company and financial data, that can be downloaded for analysis, display and print
- London Metal ExchangeCurrent metal prices and contracts with access to one year of historical data (registration required).
- Scotiabank Commodity Price IndexMonthly commodity price newsletter.
- USGS Minerals InformationStatistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the US economy, national security, and protection of the environment. Includes Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities in the US, an online compilation of historical US statistics on mineral and material commodities. Information on approximately 90 mineral commodities, including production, imports, exports, and stocks; reported and apparent consumption; and unit value (the real and nominal price in US dollars of a metric ton of apparent consumption). For many commodities, data are reported as far back as 1900, and can be downloaded as a spreadsheet.
