Amadeus - European Company Data
The Amadeus database provides financial and business data on the largest 450,000 companies in 38 European countries. Amadeus (Bureau van Dijk) includes standardised annual accounts (consolidated and unconsolidated), financial ratios, sectoral activities and ownership.
This is a pan-European source for company-level information, suitable for research projects in political economy, competitiveness, economic integration, applied microeconomics, business cycles, economic geogaphy and corporate finance.
The database is a complement to Datastream from Thomson Reuters, also available at the EUI.
The Amadeus database is updated weekly, providing standardised annual accounts with ten years of series. Data is collected and collated by Bureau van Dijk, from company reports and returns.
News and updates about Amadeus are available at this BvD link .
A PDF description is available at this link .
Users who would like to receive the 'Amadeus Business & Financial Info' newsletter, should send a message to the email address on this BvD page .
The NACE II data classification system - used in Amadeus - is explained on this page . (English, French & German)
EUI users can access Amadeus via this Catalogue record .
Select the level of coverage (eg. top 20,000 firms); the sector of coverage (eg. Europe > food companies); the geography of coverage (eg. three countries); and the time-span of coverage (eg. last two years).
A standard company report in Amadeus includes: 25 balance sheet items; 26 profit and loss account items; 26 ratios; descriptive information including trade description and activity codes (NACE II , NAICS or US SIC can be used across the database) and ownership details.
Each company is part of a default 'peer group' based on standard sectoral activity codes. Integral graphs illustrate the position in the peer group. A company tree illustrates the structure of the group.
Amadeus is accessible campus-wide to current EUI members via this Catalogue record . Two users may access the database simultaneously.
Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu