The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides a remote subject based research and enquiry service to ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users and can source information using our collections of reference material, digital products, books for loan and journals.
Enquiry service
Examples of enquiries we can answer include:
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Are comparable beta values available?
If you require comparable beta values for a company you're trying to value, we can supply equity beta values and other key data for relevant business sectors, using the London Business School's quarterly Risk Measurement Service publication.
We can also search the Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) database on behalf of ICAEW members and students to find beta values for an individual publicly listed company or range of companies.- See our Knowledge guide to beta values
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Can you supply case transcripts?
The ICAEW Library and Information Service can supply ICAEW members and ACA students with legal case transcripts and overviews from Lexis Library online.
Additionally a number of the valuation articles and books in the Library collection highlight relevant cases.- The Valuation Community's Legal cases page highlights key cases relevant to Valuation Community members
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Do you have a model engagement letter for a company or share valuation?
The ICAEW Library & Information Service holds a wide range of engagement letters in print and digital formats, including letters for company and share valuations and due diligence engagements. Copies of letters can be supplied within copyright law and subject to licences. Please see our document delivery service for further details.
- See the Library's Engagement letters page
- Find an engagement letter - search tool to check the library's catalogue for example letters
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Do you have the market capitalisation figures for Wolseley-Hughes as at 31 March 1982?
This enquiry was answered using a table of selected investment statistics (including fully taxed PE ratios) for constituents of the FT-Actuaries All-Share Index as at 31 March 1982 which has been reproduced in the book ‘Valuation of Unquoted Companies’ by Christopher Glover.
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How can I value a niche business?
If you are trying to value a company in a sector you're unfamiliar with, the Library team will be happy to look into it for you. The Library has access to a wide range of print and online resources which we can draw on to answer valuation queries.
We've previously assisted with valuation enquiries for businesses as diverse as livestock breeding farms, car dealerships, dentists, law firms, medicine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and vineyards.
Additionally our Industry guides can be useful to research a particular sector. The guides are available to ICAEW members and ACA students; they cover over eighty different industries, providing a package of links to market research reports, statistics, information on import and export, trade bodies and trade journals.
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What is the price-earnings (P/E) ratio for a particular industry sector?
We have a number of sources that can help find the P/E ratio for a particular market sector, for example Aerospace & defence or Healthcare.
The Library subscribes to the Risk Measurement Service, a quarterly publication from London Business School. It provides data on the yield and earnings multiple (including the net yield and P/E ratio) for 3,000 UK shares, including every UK stock with a full listing on the London Stock Exchange and all AIM listed stocks. The listings of companies are arranged alphabetically and by sector, with tables for the highest and lowest P/E ratios.
P/E ratios for the last five years are also available from the FTSE Actuaries Share Indices table on the Financial Times website (available online at FT Data Archive, subscription required).
- See our Knowledge guide to P/E ratios for more information on these sources.
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What was the Private Company Price Index for a past year/quarter?
This enquiry can be answered from the Private company price index (PCPI), published by BDO Stoy Hayward.
For information on the Library's holdings of PCPI please see our PCPI catalogue entry.
Some previous editions can also be accessed from BDO's PCPI web section
Benchmarking reports
The ICAEW Library & Information Service also provides ICAEW members and ACA students with a benchmarking service using the FAME database, which provides detailed company information on UK and Irish public and private companies using information sourced from Companies House and other suppliers.
The reports are supplied subject to the restriction that we can only provide information that is publicly available, e.g. for companies filing abbreviated accounts we would be unable to provide any figures from the profit and loss account.
Can't find what you're looking for?
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