WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

• Audit Analytics
  Audit Analytics provides access to detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. It tells you who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services. Users can create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry and much more.

• Compustat Executive Compensation
  Compustat Executive Compensation information consists of executive compensation data for the company's top officers for companies within the S&P 1500.

• Compustat Global
  Compustat Global provides data covering public traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalisation, including coverage over 96% of European market capitalisation and 88% of Asian market capitalisation.

• Compustat North America
  Compustat North America provides U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplementary data items.

• Corporate Library
  The Corporate Library provides comprehensive objective corporate governance and compensation information covering over 4,000 U.S. companies and over 40,000 corporate executives and directors. It covers information on Corporate Board Structure and Independence, Director Positions and Committee Assignments, Executive Compensation, Director Compensation, Audit Fees, Corporate Ownership, and Takeover Defenses.

• CRSP/Compustat Merged Database
  The Center for Research in Security Prices maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets.

• First Call Historical Database
  The First Call Historical Database, or FCHD, is a history of First Call's Real Time Earnings Estimates. It contains earnings information dating as far back as 1990, on over 9,700 securities, including 8,500 U.S. Securities, 1,000 Canadian Securities and 180 ADR's. Data tables include broker estimate detail, consensus estimates, estimate revision activity, reported actuals, company issued guidelines, footnotes, stock splits, company and issuer information, and cross reference to other First Call products.

• I/B/E/S
  The Institutional Brokers Estimates System (IBES) provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.

• RiskMetrics (formerly IRRC) Governance and Directors
  RiskMetrics (through ISS Governance Services) is a leader in corporate governance data. They deliver to WRDS two datasets identified as RiskMetrics Group Historical Governance and Histrocial Directors data.

• S&P Credit Ratings
  provides a history of short and long term commercial credit and corporate bond ratings at both the issuer/entity and issue/instrument levels. This set also includes Credit Watch and Credit Outlook information.

• TFN 13f
  Institutional holdings data from SEC Form 13F quarterly filings provided by Thomson Financial.

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Subject coverage: accounting, economics and finance
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