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Description of PwC Corporate Register - standard CD edition (quarterly)

CD REFS allows you to quickly and easily sort, filter and select companies with the potential to make you money.

It will enable you to...

* View or print the full set of Really Essential Financial Statistics available on each company - putting you fully in the picture.
* Search through all the whole universe of equities to find those that meet your set of criteria...in seconds.
* Monitor the performance of your portfolio - allowing you to see at a glance exactly what profit/loss you've made.

...making you a more effective investor.

CD REFS is a unique service.

CD REFS gives you a wealth of information

It contains...

* Full sets of tables ranking companies according to key criteria
* Essential investment statistics for every UK equity
* Historic data
* Forecast information
* Key investment statistics
* Directors' share dealings - and more

...enabling you to view or print any section of Really Essential Financial Statistics at your convenience.

CD REFS is convenient and versatile to use

It gives you the power to manipulate REFS data according to your personal share selection criteria. You can set your own parameters and CD REFS will sort through its universe of shares to come up with a list of companies specific to your requirements - saving you valuable time.
CD REFS helps you monitor your portfolio performance

CD REFS portfolio management function updates the value of your shares automatically with each new CD you receive. This helps you to track your portfolio and to gauge profit/loss instantly. What's more, you can set up as many portfolios as you wish - allowing you to test different investment strategies over time. Once you have received several editions of CD REFS you'll have a valuable history of company statistics at your fingertips.

CD REFS contains all the information available in Company REFS, but importantly - CD REFS allows you to manipulate the data and quickly and easily find attractive companies.

You'll soon have a valuable database to back test

Perhaps one of the most powerful features of CD REFS is the long term value of having a database to backtest investment strategies and selection criteria. Once you have several issues of CD REFS you'll have a valuable history of company statistics.

CD REFS also has an on-screen 'tutorial' that guides you through all the functions and shows you step by step, for instance, how to find shares that meet your particular selection criteria.

Make REFS work for YOUR investment objectives

REFS contains data that is vital whether you are a professional or private investor. Recognising this, it is available on either monthly or quarterly subscription.

What's more, whichever subscription package you choose, you will also receive, free of charge, a guide by Jim Slater which explains how to successfully apply the statistics found in REFS and help familiarise you with the information covered in REFS.

System requirements

The minimum recommended spec for CD REFS to run on is: Pentium processor, 64Mb of RAM, 100 Mb of hard disk, 8 speed CD ROM drive.

Title Information

Format:

CD-Rom

Product Code:

15270

Publisher:

HS Financial

Published:

01/01/1970

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Contents of PwC Corporate Register - standard CD edition (quarterly)

Publication Cycle

The database from which The PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Register is produced is updated constantly as companies announce results, as other news becomes available and when directors and officers change. Every quarter, the latest position at the time of going to press is used as the basis for a new edition, which is complete and supersedes all previous editions. The quarterly publication cycle is March, June, September and December.


Scope

All UK companies, registered in the UK and Ireland, with equity shares, fully listed on the London Stock Exchange and Alternative Investment Market are entitled to an entry in the Companies Section. Overseas companies with equity shares trading on The London Stock Exchange and unlisted UK companies may also elect to be included.


Order of Listing

Entries appear in the Companies Section in alphabetical order of company name, attributing equal values to upper and lower case letters. The expression "PLC" is used throughout to indicate "public limited company", irrespective of the actual style adopted by companies in their own names.


Sources of Information

Information appearing in The Corporate Register is compiled from prime sources and drawn mainly from the company's own report and accounts. Each entry is submitted for verification to the company concerned prior to publication. Many companies provide additional data and the publisher would like to express appreciation to them, their registrars and advisers for their considerable assistance in updating the publication.


Additional Information

Companies may elect to provide additional information on subsidiary companies, management structure, corporate strategy and brands.


Head & Registered Offices

The address of the company's head and registered office together with its telephone and fax numbers is included in each entry. Details of the head office are provided if this is at a different address.


Market Capitalisation

"Market capitalisation" is taken to be the number of ordinary shares in issue at the year-end multiplied by the closing price at that date. In the event that there are two classes of ordinary share in issue, their market capitalisations are added together so that the total is comparable with the company's net asset value as represented by "ordinary capital and reserves" in the financial table.


Equity Share Capital, Substantial Shareholdings

Company profile entries show the nominal value and total number of ordinary shares in issue, normally as at the latest year-end. Directors' shareholdings and those of shareholders controlling more than 3% of the issued share capital are detailed thereafter. Major and director's shareholdings are shown in percentage terms and do not take account of executive share option schemes. The holding of any individual director in excess of 3% is shown separately, other directors' holdings being shown in aggregate, unless they are insignificant. For investment trusts details are restricted to holdings above 5%.


Directors

Entries list the names of the company's directors in board hierarchical order. Executive directors are listed first, followed by Non-executive directors and the company secretary. Officers are included when the information has been provided directly from the company. Each director's name is listed in full (Surname, followed by Christian name). Where a director's name appears in brackets, this indicates his or her usual name. Rem or Aud appearing after the director's name indicates that he or she is a member of the Remuneration or Audit Committee respectively. Next comes the board appointment date, followed by the job title and the number of ordinary and incentive shares currently held. The director's full biographical information is shown in the section of The Corporate Register "Directors and Officers".


Directors Pay

This section is compiled from the company's annual report and accounts. Total directors' pay includes all salaries, fees, bonuses, benefits, and other normal remuneration, and includes company pension contributions where given. It does not include gains on the exercise of share options and similar incentives. The chairman's and highest paid director's pay figures exclude pension contributions and any compensation for loss of office. The average overall is calculated on the following basis: total remuneration for all directors for the last reported year divided by the number of board directors throughout the year. The average higher paid figure is calculated on the following basis: total remuneration for all directors for the last reported year less the average pay of any director earning under �20,000 divided by the number of directors with remuneration of �20,000 and above.


Employees

This is the average number of employees and their respective total remuneration for the year taken from the annual report and accounts. If the annual report states that the employee information includes directors then the director numbers and remuneration is deducted from the totals. Similarly if the employee figures include executive directors then only those figures that relate to the executive directors are deducted. The average is calculated on the following basis: total remuneration for the last reported year divided by the average number of employees.



Registrars, Bankers & Advisers

The name and telephone number of each company's registrar is shown in each company entry. A listing of registrars' full names and addresses is provided in the Professional Advisers Section at the back of The Register. The names of principal bankers and advisers provided by the companies concerned are also shown in company profile entries. Certain companies have informed us that they use various bankers or advisers of a particular class and consider it inappropriate to name any of them as being their principal bankers or advisers. In such cases, the relevant reference has been omitted altogether.
Registrars and advisers with addresses out of London have the town of their address noted after their name in company entries. The full names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers are reproduced in the Professional Advisers Section.


Year Ends

The year-end stated in a company's entry relates to its latest accounting period. Certain companies adjust their year-ends so that the accounting period conforms to a fixed number of complete weeks. In such cases, the company's year-end is stated to the nearest month-end e.g. 2 January would be treated as 31 December. For non-standard accounting periods, the number of months encompassed is shown next to the relevant year.


Professional Advisers & Their Clients

Details of company auditors and the names of its principal advisers, as provided by the client company, are used to compile the directories of advisers and their clients which appear in the Professional Advisers Section of The Corporate Register. Whilst proofs of entries in this section are provided to the advisers concerned for verification purposes, it is important to recognise that the listings of clients are based upon information provided by the client companies themselves rather than the advisers.