Directory: Financial performance indicators for Canadian business 1997 (fpicb)

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Financial Performance Indicators for Canadian Business is an authoritative reference source of
key financial ratios by industry. It is based on up-to-date, reliable and comprehensive data on Canadian
businesses, derived from Statistics Canada databases of financial statements.

The indicators are designed to serve as financial performance benchmarks against which individual firms
and industries can be compared. It allows firms to precisely position themselves within their peer group.

Volumes 1 and 2

Financial performance indicators are a series of 15 commonly used financial ratios. In table 1,
the financial ratios are divided into three categories, profitability, solvency and efficiency ratios.
The table also indicates the portion of the firms in each industry that experienced profits as opposed
to losses.

Table 2
sets out a "common-sized" balance sheet which provides a structural analysis of the balance sheet.


Volume 3
Six principal financial ratios - net profit margin, pretax profit margin, gross profit margin,
pretax profits to assets, return on equity and liabilities to assets, are presented in volume 3.
It also contains year over year sales growth rates for the two most current years and the percentage
of all firms that experienced profits as opposed to losses.



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Edition 1997   Reference Year 1996
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Directory:  /dli/fpicb/1997/data

FILENAME                  DESCRIPTION

volume1_96.zip            FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR CANADIAN BUSINESS volume1
volume2_96.zip            FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR CANADIAN BUSINESS volume2
volume3_96.zip            FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR CANADIAN BUSINESS volume3


1.  Download volume#_96.zip (in binary format) from the DLI FTP site:
    /dli/fpicb/1997_edition/volume(1,2,3)_96.zip to a temporary directory on
    your PC.

2.  Uncompress using the subdirectories or path that is assigned to the zipped files.

3.  Run the set-up program "SETUP.EXE" for each volume.

4.  For more information regarding this product consult "fpicb96gid.pdf"

FILENAME                 DESCRIPTION
Directory:  /dli/fpicb/1997/data

fpicb96appi pdf     CONCORDANCE TABLE OF INDUSTRIES IN VOLUMES 1, 2 & 3
fpicb96gid.pdf     Concepts, Sources and Methods

Data Download:
May 22, 2002
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Documentation Download:
May 22, 2002
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