COMPUSTAT PC Plus for Windows on CD-ROM is available to all private and public institutions of higher learning at a substantially reduced annual fee. In order to qualify, the service must be used for teaching and noncommercial academic research only.

PC Plus contains the premier COMPUSTAT financial database of over 18,000 companies all on CD-ROM complete with easy-to-use, state-of-the-art software. It is designed for use on an IBM PC or compatible and can be installed on a local area network.

PC Plus includes the following:

• Up-to-date CD-ROM delivered each year which presents approximately 18,000 companies
• Financial Information - over 800 items per year adjusted for accounting differences, on approximately 18,000 companies of which approximately 10,450 (including 900 Canadians and 15 Canadian Indexes, 800 banking companies and 470 NYSE/ASE Closed-End Funds) are currently in business (active) and 7,550 are bankrupt, went private, no longer report, or were liquidated (inactive)
• History - data history is up to 20 years for all companies with up to 48 quarters for the active US and Canadian companies. Up to 7 years is provided for Industry Segment (line of business) and Geographic data.
• Prices/Dividends/Earnings - 240 months of prices, dividends, and earnings for the active companies and 177 indexes.
• Officers - up to four (4) officers per company are named with addresses and phone numbers.
• Industry Aggregates - approximately 310 industry aggregates (recognized as companies to the software) with up to 18 years and 48 quarters of history are included. This means that the provided report formats, or reports you create, can be run for industries as well as individual companies.
• Downloading/Reporting - over 85 company formatted reports or use report builders to customize your own which may be printed or downloaded to ASCII files for use in other software such as Excel, Lotus, PC SAS, and any software accepting ASCII files.
• Spreadsheets - access PC Plus information directly from within Excel and Lotus spreadsheets (DDE - dynamic data exchange).
• Searching - predefined screens to quickly search using commonly requested criteria as well as the ability to screen on any variable or combination of variables for any time period.
• Proprietary Data - can easily add your own proprietary data, or alter existing data, for customized analysis. This data then becomes part of the COMPUSTAT database and can be accessed by item or through reports.
• Predefined Concepts - software includes approximately 200 annual, 90 quarterly, 15 monthly, and 20 daily calculated items we call concepts. This capability allows you to create custom complex equations and save them as concepts for use in custom reports.
• Business Descriptions - access detailed company business descriptions with the click of a button.
• Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys Trends and Projections - by David M. Blitzer, Vice President & Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's Corporation. Covers all the latest topics on the economy including consumer spending, trade and budget deficits, inflation, unemployment and much more. Includes in-depth textual analysis and charts such as real growth and inflation, employment, consumer confidence, consumer and producer prices, capital spending, retail activity, housing market, industrial production index, capacity utilization, imports and exports, corporate profits, S&P 500 stock prices, interest rates, and leading indicators.
• Economic Sector and Industry Sector Data - enables you to use current sectors in stock performance analysis to compare a company to its peers. Economic Sector codes categorize all companies into one of nine broad economic groups and the Industry Sector codes further refine each classification into a more specific industry group.
• Macroeconomic Data - 20 years of key monthly statistics such as Treasury Bill Rates, Prime Interest Rates and the Consumer Price Index, as well as concepts based on these indicators like the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
• Also included separately is S&P ACE (Analysts' Consensus Estimates) Estimated Earnings Database - Earnings estimates and buy/hold/sell recommendations for more than 4,940 companies with information from over 2,300 contributing analysts from over 200 US international brokerage firms. Over 150 data items per company are presented.
• On-site installation and training
• Extensive on-line help including data definitions, training and reference manuals
• Toll-free support lines staffed by well trained experts in data, hardware, software, and applications
• Subscriber must provide PC and the required CD-ROM readers.

TO ORDER

1. Call 1-800-525-8640 or FAX number 303-721-4677 and request the COMPUSTAT PC SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT and ORDER FORM/EXHIBIT A.

2. Complete and Mail to:

Public Sector Group, Standard & Poor's Compustat, A Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, 7400 South Alton Court, Englewood, CO 80112-2394

3. Rush orders may be placed by calling Public Sector Group at 1-800-525-8640 or FAX number 303-721-4677.

Compustat Contact Information

7400 South Alton Court
Englewood, CO 80112-2394
Tel 303 771 6510
Fax 303 721 4677
800 525 8640

Contact Name at Compustat:
Joseph Green,
Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, Public Sector