Databases
To support the creation of impactful research, and provide a learning and teaching environment to match, the Accounting and Finance Department has invested in an excellent provision of databases.
This in-depth range of access is supported by a team of dedicated Data Research Officers (Dr Sang Le and Dr Evan Zhou) responsible for managing and maintaining our databases and educating end-users in the use of database resources. These specially trained academic researchers are on hand to assist staff and students with database-specific knowledge and access techniques.
In addition, the School is proud to host two state-of-the-art, fully-equipped financial trading rooms, boasting a full suite of Bloomberg and Refinitive (TR) Eikon/Refinitive (TR) Datastream terminals.
Current Databases | updated November 2025
Wharton Research Database Systems (WRDS)
• Audit Analytics (Accounting and Oversight; Audit and Compliance, Corporate and Legal)
• Bank Regulatory
• Blockholders
• Boardex
• Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) (with CRSP/Compustat Merged)
• China Stock Market and Accounting Research (CSMAR)
• Compustat (North America, Global, Bank, Execucomp, Trucost, etc.)
• European Short Data
• LSEG (Institutional (13f) holdings, DealScan, IBES academic)
• Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) (US Directors, Governance, Incentive lab)
• RavenPack
• Reprisk
• FactSet Supply Chain Relationships
• TRACE
• Other datasets and tools available from WRDS (Contributed data, research quotient, US subsidiaries, US Patents, OTC markets, FF factors, CBOE indexes, Linking suit, Event study, SEC-mandated Disclosure of Order Execution Statistics, Market Information Data Analytics System (MIDAS), etc.
Other databases
• Beauhurst
• Bloomberg
• Bureau Van Dijk (Fame, Orbis, Orbis Bank Focus, Orbis Crossboder Investment, Orbis Ownership, Orbis Intellectual Property, Orbis M&A (formerly Zephyr))
• Capital IQ and Capital Pro (formerly SNL Market Intelligence)
• CreditSafe
• FitchRatingPro
• Morningstar Direct
• MSCI ESG