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The European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices (ECCBSO) is an informal body whose members consist of experts either from the Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices belonging to or associated with the National Central Banks (NCB) of the European Community, or from National Statistical Institutions.
The main task of the ECCBSO is to improve the analysis of Non-financial corporate enterprises data through the exchange of information and joint studies, on the basis of the work realized by the national central balance-sheet data offices which collect, store and diffuse descriptive and accounting firm data and, starting from these information, realize economic and financial research.
The Chairman is elected every three years among the persons in charge of the Institutions joining the Committee. The Secretariat is ensured by the body whose representative has been elected as Chairman and lasts during his mandate. The meetings of the ECCBSO take place at least once a year.
The Committee has developed two databases: namely the Bank for Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH), in co-operation with the European Commission, and the European Sectoral references Database (ESD).
The Committee has also created several Working Groups to deal with specific subjectsCHAIRMAINSHIP
The chairmanship is held by the National Bank of Belgium from November 2007 until November 2010
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
MEMBERS
Banco de Portugal
Banco de Espana
Bank of Greece
Banque de France
Banque Nationale de Belgique – Nationale Bank van België
Central Bank of Ireland
Centrale dei bilanci srl
Deutsche Bundesbank
National Bank of Romania
Oesterreichische Nationalbank
STATEC – Luxembourg
Statistics Finland
Statistics Netherlands
Statistics Sweden
Statistics Denmark
PERMANENT OBSERVERS
European Commission
European Central Bank
OBSERVERS
National Bank of Slovakia
National Bank of Slovenia
Czech National Bank
National Bank of Poland
IASC Foundation
Dear users,
The BACH website is no longer hosted by the European Commission.
Both databases BACH and ESD (European Sectoral references Database, hosted by Central Balance-Sheet Data Office of Italy)
are now available on the new BACH-ESD website hosted by Banque de France, whose address is
http://www.bachesd.banque-france.fr.
This new website contains :
- The complete decomposition of the balance sheet and income statement, available in terms of weighted average (BACH dataset). Currently, the database contains information on the financial statements of companies in nine countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain), aggregated by sector and by size class. Potential users are the same as those for whom financial statements are generally prepared : economic and research departments and universities, company managers and investors, government agencies …
- The 28 ratios of the former ESD dataset, calculated in quartiles and in a weighted average, by sector and by size class (BACHESD dataset). The data-base currently includes ratios from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. The different samples represent a relatively large coverage. This tool is primarily designed for users within financial institutions as an additional tool for their risk analysis. The ratios offered focus on financial structures, cash-flow and profitability. The user can work with this data-base in different ways. For instance, he can:
- compare the ratios of a company with the ratios of its sector,
- compare the ratios of a company with the ratios of the same size class and sector,
- compare different industries with each other, or
- carry out all these analysis at different aggregation levels.