This document is a user manual for Standard & Poor’s Research Insight Compustat, including tool introduction, operation process, and company's important financial statements.
This manual introduces the Research Insight interface, including the Tools menu, Research Assistant, Report Assistant, Chart Assistant, and Company Highlights. It describes how to open predefined reports, create custom reports and charts, and manage company groups and indicator sets.
The guide also details data coverage—thousands of companies, dozens of financial ratios, and decades of historical information—and shows how to link the software with Excel for real‑time data retrieval and analysis. This manual is written in Chinese.
| Current US companies | 10,000 |
|---|---|
| Discontinued US companies | 10,400 |
| Canadian companies | 1,000 |
| ADRs | 450 |
| Financial ratios | 300 |
| Years of historical data | 20 |
| Quarterly historical data | 48 |
Use the Open Report command, which opens the default report for the selected company or group.
The database provides 300 financial ratios, such as dividend, growth, and profitability measures.
Yes, the manual describes Excel integration functions that allow you to pull data directly into spreadsheets.
It includes about 10,000 current U.S. companies, 10,400 discontinued U.S. companies, 1,000 Canadian companies, and 450 ADRs.