This publication is issued annually in November in electronic format (on CD-ROM and on the internet, in the latter case free of charge and with updates) and on hard copy.
The publication contains the annual series of the results of non-financial corporations over the last ten years (balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, employment and wages, ratios, etc.), although the complete statistical series commence in 1983.
The reporting corporations included (8,000 on average) provide data to the Central Balance Sheet Data Office on a voluntary basis. They account for 35% of the GDP of the sector and do not amount to a statistical sample.
The publication also provides comparative information from other European, United States and Japanese Central Balance Sheet Data Offices.
The supplement offers aggregate information based on the annual accounts of corporations filed with the Mercantile Registries since 1991. More than 300,000 annual accounts of non-financial corporations are processed each year.
The electronic version of the annual publication on CD-ROM consists of the publication and the methodological supplement, as well as search tools and the means to transfer tables directly to spreadsheet-type applications.