Directory: Financial performance indicators for Canadian business 1999 (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.

1999   (RY) Reference year 1998
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Volume 1 (V1) contains national 1998 reference year (RY) data only - 
              the 1997 RY data in last year's edition has not been revised.

Volume 2 (V2) contains national 1996 RY data only - 
              the 1995 RY data in last year's edition has not been revised.

Volume 3 (V3) contains national and provincial RY 1998, 1997 and 1996 data.
              The 1997 and 1996 data in last year's edition have been revised.

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