Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Financial Data

Question
I have a user who found industry Canada’s, financial performance data resource http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/sme-pme/bnchmrkngtl/rprt-flw.pub?execution=e1s1

They loved the data they found there, but it only cover recent years (2014)
They are now looking for similar historical data. More precisely, they are seeking information such as gross margins, net margins from 1997 to 2009 in respect of companies with revenues between $5M and $20M for the following NAICS codes:

Codes SCIAN :
2213
23
236
2362
2373
23621
23622
23711

Where might I go to find this?

Answer
I believe the Financial Performance Indicator files are on the EFT site: /MAD_DLI_IDD_DAM/Root/other_autres/2510_FPICB_IPFEC. 

 Also on the WDS under "Business and Financial". I haven't used these for a while. They were (are?) CDs, and I think you will have to install them on your machine.