Central Balance-Sheet Database

The Central Balance-Sheet Database (CBSD) of Banco de Portugal is an economic and financial database on Portuguese non-financial corporations. Information is based on annual and quarterly accounting data on an individual instead of consolidated basis.

For annual data from 2006 onwards, the CBSD of Banco de Portugal is based on information on the annual accounts of corporations reported under the Informação Empresarial Simplificada (Simplified Corporate Information, Portuguese acronym: IES).

For quarterly data, Banco de Portugal uses the information reported on the quarterly survey to non-financial corporations, which is jointly carried out with Statistics Portugal.

The CBSD’s main purpose is to contribute to a better understanding of the economic and financial situation of Portuguese non-financial corporations. It provides corporations with useful information for their management and for a better perception of their position within their sector of economic activity. In addition, it provides Banco de Portugal with useful data for carrying out its tasks, namely in terms of statistics, financial stability analysis and research on the Portuguese economy.