CanCorp Financials Database

This information is provided for historical research purposes. The description below was written in 2002. CanCorp Financials ceased and was supplanted by another resource called Corporate Retriever. That product was discontinued by the vendor, Micromedia (ProQuest) at the end of 2006. For a description of Corporate Retriever see: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/corpretriever.html

CanCorp Financials Professional, a web-based product, provides financial and management information extracted from the
corporate documents of over 13,000 Canadian companies.
Based on CanCorp, Micromedia ProQuest’s Canadian Corporations database, and data from the Financial Post
DataGroup, CanCorp Financials provides corporate details, seven years of financials, ratios, operating statistics, and a five to seven year history of stock performance data for virtually all active public companies and crown corporations in Canada. Archival information is maintained on an additional 8,000 public, private and crown corporations. Coverage includes Canadian corporations headquartered in all 10 provinces and three territories. Also included are companies incorporated outside of Canada that are publicly traded on a Canadian exchange.

Companies included are:

• Major public corporations incorporated in Canada and trading on a Canadian exchange
• Major subsidiaries that are publicly traded
• Major federal, provincial and municipal crown corporations (specially legislated crown companies which are majority
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  owned by the government)
• Incorporated federal and provincial mutual funds
• All firms in the Report on Business Top 1000 list
• Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Most information is easily downloaded into other applications, including spreadsheets and databases, for full analysis. The financial information includes annual income statement and balance sheets, interim data and ratios. You also have full access to official filings, the President's Letter to Shareholders, company history, ownership data, and financial footnotes for the TSE 300.

Sample Report from CanCorp

It should be noted that the Business Library has a historical collection of Compact Disclosure Canada, the CD-Rom product that preceded CanCorp Financials Professional. (library has: 1992-2000 ... data would therefore range from 1985 to 2000) Persons attempting to find historical information on Canadian companies should speak to Business Library staff.