2019
DOI: 10.12660/rbfin.v17n3.2019.78654
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Accessing financial reports and corporate events with GetDFPData

Abstract: <p>This paper presents and discusses the contributions and usage of GetDFPData, which is an open and free software for accessing corporate data from the Brazilian financial exchange, B3. The distribution and popularization of an open-source algorithm for gathering and managing financial data can improve finance research and practice in two ways. First, it increases the number and quality of research in accounting and corporate finance. Secondly, it provides retail investors with reliable data that may he… Show more

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“…B3 provides financial statements data – assets, liabilities, income and cash flow – in its DFP system and board composition data in the FRE system. We use GetDFPData (Perlin et al , 2019) to download information for all available companies from 2010–2018. The FRE system only started in 2010, which explains the choice of period.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…B3 provides financial statements data – assets, liabilities, income and cash flow – in its DFP system and board composition data in the FRE system. We use GetDFPData (Perlin et al , 2019) to download information for all available companies from 2010–2018. The FRE system only started in 2010, which explains the choice of period.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Para coleta de dados, inicialmente foram obtidas informações pessoais e currículos dos CEOs e CA, nível de governança corporativa, tamanho da empresa de auditoria e empresa familiar a partir do Formulário de Referência (FR). Os documentos foram extraídos do site da [B] 3 por meio do software RStudio ® com a utilização do pacote GetDFPData (Perlin et al, 2018). Os dados econômicos e financeiros foram extraídos da base de dados Economática ® .…”
Section: Idade Da Empresaunclassified
“…Alongside all articles with open data published by RAC, which can be found at RAC's Dataverse, some other datasets are worth mentioning and could be used in future tutorial-articles. For instance, Perlin, Kirch and Vancin (2019) provide an open-source algorithm to download corporate data from B3, including financial data and corporate events. Along similar lines, the BETS (Brazilian economic time series) (Costa, Speranza, & Costa, 2018) R-package provides the time series of several economic and financial indexes of Brazil.…”
Section: More Useful Datasetsmentioning
confidence: 99%