Welcome to another conference of Banco de Portugal’s Central Balance-Sheet Database. It is always with great pleasure that I associate myself with this event, hosted by the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal, and which is in its eighth edition. The information produced and made available by the Central Balance-Sheet Database is a valuable asset, which we are proud to preserve and improve.
Not only is it a valuable asset for Banco de Portugal, as producer of studies on the Portuguese economic reality, but also, and above all, a valuable asset for firms, economic decision-makers, academia and society in general. The Central Balance-Sheet Database is, as you know, fed by so-called IES – Simplified Corporate Information.