LibGuides@Southampton: Business, Accounting, Finance, Management & Marketing: Accounting Information

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To access library resources you will need to connect to the University’s VPN service called Global Protect. Further information on how to connect to the University’s VPN using Global Protect can be found here.

Company Accounts

Fame This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information about UK and Irish companies for the last 10 years, including publicly listed and private companies.
We are aware of an issue with Chrome and the Fame database. For now, we suggest using Edge or Firefox. If you still wish to use Chrome, please try the following steps:

1. In Chrome, enter chrome://flags/#use-sha1-server-handshakes in the address and press Enter
2. If Allow SHA-1 server signatures in TLS is set to disabled, change it to Default (if that doesn't work set it to enable)
3. Relaunch Chrome and try accessing it again
4. If it still does not work, change it to Allowed, relaunch Chrome and try again

You must log in with your SUSSED username and password both on campus and off campus. Fame can be used to research individual companies or find a group of companies that fit a specific profile and analyse them. Fame includes: Company financials, in detailed format, with up to 10 years of history; Financial strength indicators; Directors and contacts; Original filings/images as filed at Companies House and the Companies Registration Office in Ireland; Stock data for listed companies; Detailed corporate structures and the corporate family; Shareholders and subsidiaries; Industry research; Adverse filings; Business and company-related news; M&A deals and rumours

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
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WRDS provides access to a range of third party research data via a web interface. Data can also be downloaded directly from their server or via PC-SAS. You must register before you can use it.
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Most data is for the USA. For details, click on the green ? icon.

Fitch Ratings Pro This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information, including financial statements, ratios and credit ratings for over 30,000 banks worldwide. Data is available for the last 10 years. It also includes economic data and credit ratings for countries, and bonds and securities for banks. We do not have access to data for insurance companies. WORKS BEST IN GOOGLE CHROME
To sign in, please click on the SSO tab and use institution code 'UOS'
Up to 30 years of data is available via the Excel Add-in but this is complex to use. For details, click on the tutorial icon above.

Contact

Siân Furmage

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Subjects: Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Mathematics