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| Title: | What Do Private Firms Look like? |
| Authors: | Asker, John
Farre-Mensa, Joan
Ljungqvist, Alexander |
| Issue Date: | 12-Dec-2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | FIN-11-018 |
| Abstract: | Private firms in the U.S. are not subject to public reporting
requirements, so relatively little is known about their characteristics
and behavior – until now. This Data Appendix describes a new
database on private U.S. firms, created by Sageworks Inc. in cooperation
with hundreds of accounting firms. The contents of the Sageworks
database mirror Compustat, the standard database for public U.S. firms.
It contains balance sheet and income statement data for 95,297 private
firms covering 250,507 firms-years over the period 2002 to 2007. We
compare this database to the joint Compustat-CRSP database of public
firms and to the Federal Reserve’s 2003 National Survey of Small
Business Finances. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/31351 |
| Appears in Collections: | Finance Working Papers
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