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Accountancy, Finance & Economics: Company and Financial Information

Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete 

A Full text business database, covering management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics and international business. In addition to journal articles, this database provides access to company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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Companies House Survey

Companies House Service

All companies registered in the UK are required to register and deposit their accounts with Companies House. The basic information is free (address, directors, dates when accounts were filed, etc.)

Fitch Connect

Fitch Connect 

Access comprehensive credit intelligence, including the world's leading bank fundamental data set, ratings and research covering the fixed-income universe, as well as financial data on insurance firms, corporates and sovereigns.

FAME

FAME 

Provides accounts (10 years) for over 3 million companies in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Plus, company contact details, brand names, no. of employees, and names of directors.

Please note: FAME is licenced for education, teaching, tuition, training, instruction, learning, private study and/or research only. Use for university business processes (including Business Development, Marketing and Alumni Offices) are prohibited.
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Basics of FAME

Click on the help icon within FAME to access help guides and tutorials.

Orbis

Orbis VL 

Orbis is Bureau van Dijk ’s global database which has information on over 450 million public and private companies including, banks, vessels, insurance, and industrial companies covering 220+ countries.

It is a tool that specialises in private company data, containing active and inactive companies with up to ten years of financial data available.

Our subscription provides data on very large companies (VL), defined as follows:
• operating revenue >= $130 million US (100 million EUR)
• total assets >= $260 million US (200 million EUR)
• number of employees >= 1000

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