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What is Prowess?

Prowess is a database of the financial performance of around 25000 Indian

companies. It has been created by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt.

Ltd.(CMIE). It covers listed as well as unlisted companies, large and medium public

limited companies, government owned companies, some privately held companies,

some cooperatives and even some business entities that are not companies. It is a

database of the financials of companies.

Guide to Using PROWESS

Following is the home page of PROWESS that will appear on your screen when you

click on the PROWESS icon on your desktop.



Prowess is designed to help users access information for individual companies. There

are tools to search companies in the database that match search-criteria provided by

users. Prowess presents several tabulations (such as financial statements) and charts

(including those of share prices). These presentations help the user in quickly

analysing the companies in the database. It is useful to understand the Prowess

software as a system that undertakes two tasks for the user – first, it searches

companies in the database, and secondly, it presents information on companies in theform of tabulations and charts. Each is explained a little more below:

Suppose you want to know the sales price, profit, address, pin code etc of all the

companies registered in Madhya Parades. For processing this query you need to

follow these mentioned steps.

Please click on the Query by basic information

Please click on Address & pin code to open the below page. You will find that screen

is organised into various sections These sections contain the parameters that need to

be specified in order to run a query and generate the output. You can run the query

and generate the output in the following manner



State & District : Here, you will select the state for which you need to generate data,

say, Madhya Pradesh.

Select Address type to search by: Registered

Display Data: Show address with tel, fax, Email, Website Adress

Execute Commands: Having specified all the query parameters above, you need to

run the query by using one of the execute commands. This can be done by clicking on

‘New’ Buttton



After the query has been executed, the data will be generated in an Output Sheet as

given in the following illustration.

This is a list of companies registered in Madhya Pradesh. For getting the sales and profit data

for the above mentioned companies, you again need to process a query on the same output

sheet (current output sheet)

REMEMBER ALWAYS

Before going to process another query, first you have to click on clear button appear on thetool bar in the red cross form so as to clear or unmarked the previous selection otherwise one

has to suffer from data duplication problem.



Then Click on Query by Finance/stocks, a below mentioned screen will appear. For gettingthe sales data follow the following below mentioned steps



Click on the Audited financial result on the extreme left hand side

Select expression: Click on Sales and profit after sales

Financial: Here S & C is given , S means Stand alone figure and C Means

Consolidated Figures. Click “S” for the both

Query on Year : This will define the range for which the data series has to be

generated. This can be specified in ‘dd/mm/yyyy - dd/mm/yyyy’ format or in

‘yyyymm - yyyymm’ format. Thus, a data series at the selected frequency and

expression type is generated for the date range specified in the ‘Query on year’ area.

The date can also be specified using the letter ‘L’. ‘L’ refers to ‘latest’. Hence, instead

of specifying the date in the ‘dd/mm/yyyy’ format, you can enter ‘L5’. The distinct

advantage of using ‘L’ is, that you need not be aware of what the date of the latest

data is. For instance, if you specify ‘L6’ as output date then you will get sales and

profit after tax for the MP registered companies for the latest six years. However, the

output generated by using the ‘L’ facility, will display ‘L’, ‘L1’, ‘L2’ and so on

against the data.

Execute Commands: Having specified all the query parameters above, you need to

run the query by using one of the execute commands. This can be done by clicking on

‘Add col’ Buttton ( The reason behind of clicking on the add col button is that, you

need to process the query on the same output sheet and your latest output sheet will

automatically added sales and profit after tax column for the given mentioned years)

After the query has been executed, the data will be generated in an Output Sheet asgiven in the following illustration.



Prowess finds companies that satisfy conditions set by the user. The condition could

be as simple as the name of the company the user is interested in. The tabulations and

charts readily available in Prowess are the easier way of getting information on the

specific company.These tabulations and charts (seen in Prowess as the Report Viewer

and Charts Plotter) embody a great deal of understanding of disclosure practices of

companies in India, years of experience in dealing with hundreds of thousands of

Annual Reports and interim financial statements of companies and, most importantly,an expertise in analysing companies built over three decades. The tabulations have

been created by CMIE’s analysts. They are designed to help the user quickly

understand the strengths and weaknesses of a company. The reports are designed to

help the user understand the company’s performance in great detail, in the context of

its historical performance, in the context of the performance of its peers and in the

context of the performance of its industry.

Suppose you want to see the report of ACC company. Then you have to follow the

following steps

Firstly click on Select company by name, you will find a same screen.

Start Typing For Auto search: Type company name there, say ACC. Then the

companies whose first name start with the word ACC will automatically appear in

line. You can now choose your target company.

Double Click on Company name, it will come under select company name on the

extreme right hand side.





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