Compustat

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S&P's Compustat Global is also called Research Insight Academic Quarterly, or Research Insight Global with Quarterly Updates (RIGQUG). For Compustat please refer to the other dataset. This one only comprises the *Global Vantage* data.

1 Installation

please refer to the installation material, especially the requirements (win7, Excel 2003|2010), 2GB of RAM and 5 GB of free Hard-disk. There are two ways to install it. If the described method fails, come to my office to install it from DVD.

  1. Access with the VPN the university's network
  2. klick Start-> and put in the white box (search programs and files) \\131.130.97.117 to display a window with the shares.
  3. copy the database folder compustat_data[_yyyy-mm-dd] from the share onto your PC (drag 'n drop it to your home-folder)
  4. drag 'n drop compustat_global to your home-folder
    1. read the howto, the ri_university_installation_guide_8_4.pdf
    2. start the installation process by double-clicking the researchinsight-install_84.zip

1.1 Database Manager

select your local folder where you have put your databases in the previous step, for "Global Research".

1.2 Settings Manager

Start-up Database "Global Vantage"

again, all informations are in the ri_university_installation_guide_8_4.pdf

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