Compustat

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.

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 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