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Obtaining and using financial reports of foreign companies

Obtaining and using financial reports of foreign companies The international business researcher in the United States faces considerable barriers to obtaining and understanding firmlevel data about foreign companies. Although the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of the Census, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other government agencies collect detailed data on foreign companies doing business in the U.S., most of these data are readily obtainable only as aggregate figures. The SEC alone releases companyspecific reports for public companies trading on U.S. stock exchanges. International bodies like the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations UNCTC, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank follow the practice of individual governments in suppressing and protecting any firmlevel data, publishing only aggregate figures where those figures will not reveal the workings of individual firms. Therefore, most of the sources of data on the company level truly available to U.S. researchers are published by private information companies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Reference Services Review Emerald Publishing

Obtaining and using financial reports of foreign companies

Tipton, Roberta L.
Reference Services Review , Volume 20 (4): 12 – Apr 1, 1992
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Emerald Publishing
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Abstract

The international business researcher in the United States faces considerable barriers to obtaining and understanding firmlevel data about foreign companies. Although the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of the Census, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other government agencies collect detailed data on foreign companies doing business in the U.S., most of these data are readily obtainable only as aggregate figures. The SEC alone releases companyspecific reports for public companies trading on U.S. stock exchanges. International bodies like the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations UNCTC, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank follow the practice of individual governments in suppressing and protecting any firmlevel data, publishing only aggregate figures where those figures will not reveal the workings of individual firms. Therefore, most of the sources of data on the company level truly available to U.S. researchers are published by private information companies.

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Reference Services Review – Emerald Publishing

Published: Apr 1, 1992

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