Amadeus - Bureau van Dijk
Amadeus (Bureau van Dijk) provides financial and business data on 250,000 companies in 38 European countries – east and west – including standardised annual accounts (consolidated and unconsolidated), financial ratios, sectoral activities and ownership. In addition to numerical data, the database contains descriptive information and company reports.
Amadeus is a valuable source of company-level data for researchers in applied microeconomic research, corporate finance, growth, political economy, business cycles, financial development and integration.
The database is an important complement to Datastream Advance from Thomson Reuters (see this Library page).
The Amadeus database is updated daily, providing standardised annual accounts for ten years, except in the case of newer companies.
News and updates about Amadeus are available at this BvD link.
A PDF description is available at this link.
In June 2009, BvD launched a new Amadeus e-mail newsletter – 'Amadeus Business & Financial Info.' To subscribe, send a message to the email address on this BvD page.
EUI users can access Amadeus via this Catalogue record.
Amadeus is a modular product. Users can choose the level of coverage (eg. top 20,000 firms); the sector of coverage (eg. European food companies); the geography of coverage (eg. three European countries); and the time-span of coverage (eg. the past two years).
A standard company report in Amadeus includes: 25 balance sheet items, 26 profit and loss account items and 26 ratios, descriptive information including trade description and activity codes (NACE 1, NAICS or US SIC can be used across the database), ownership information which is researched by Bureau van Dijk’s consultants.
Each company is part of a default 'peer group' based on its sectoral activity codes. Integral graphs illustrate its position in this peer group. A company tree diagram illustrates the structure of the group.
Amadeus offers two search formats. Quick multi-step search provides one-screen searching using the 11 most popular criteria for fast answers to basic queries. The expert mode has over 100 search criteria and features Boolean logic and, where available, time series searching.
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