Chapter 1
Introduction

1.1

Brief Description of the Listed Companies' Financial Statements Databank

The databank contains annual data of Taiwan Stock Exchange listed companies' financial statements, such as assets, liabilities, income statements, cash flows, dividends, etc.

This bank consists of two parts, with bank names COMP and COMPF:

　
COMP: including data for non-financial companies;
COMPF: including data for financial companies (i.e. banking and insurance companies).

At the moment, we have collected 174 items of data consistently across 598 non-financial companies so that there are 104,130 annual time series in COMP; and we have collected 191 items of data consistently across 56 financial companies so that there are 10,696 annual time series in COMPF.

Historical data can be traced back (wherever possible) to 1981.

Data collected from the official financial reports submitted to Taiwan Stock Exchange by those listed companies.

Data updated annually.

　

1.2 Composition of Retrieval Codes

The retrieval codes for COMP and COMPF are composed as:

Initial Letter + Company Code No. + @ + Item Abbreviation

For example, A1101@TOTAL is the retrieval code for "Assets - Taiwan Cement - Total Assets." "A" is the Initial Letter, representing "Assets"; "1101" is the Company Code No. for Taiwan Cement Company; "TOTAL" is the Item Abbreviation for Total Assets. I1301@BTAX is the retrieval code for "Income Statement - Formosa Plastics - Income Before Tax". "I" is the Initial Letter for "Income Statement"; "1301" is the Company Code No. for Formosa Plastics Company; "BTAX" is the Item Abbreviation for "Income Before Tax".

In the following chapers: Chapter 2 lists all Initial Letters and Item Abbreviations for non-financial companies (COMP); Chapter 3 lists all Initial Letters and Item Abbreviations for financial companies (COMPF). Chapter 4 lists all Company Code Numbers for non-financial companies, and Chapter 5 lists all Company Code Numbers for financial companies. You can construct the retrieval codes for the data you need from these listings.