With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's financial indicators against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector, but not necessarily competing directly with the company in local markets. Second, given the international nature of the task, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs use comparable financial standards.
Benchmarks cover assets, liabilities, income and ratios.
Each report provides over 100 statistics and 40 graphs to the reader.