From Wikicompany

Goal: Present key financial figures of (mainly public) companies in both table and chart form.

• Research type of information (and definitions):
  • Income (before/after tax)
  • Costs (perhaps broken down into more specific fields)
  • Investments (useful along "cost" figure?)
  • Profit (before/after tax)
  • Debt
  • Nr. of employees
  • Average stock price (how to define)
  • Nr. of outstanding shares
  • Dividend payout

• The rendered financial table can do smart things like:
  • Give percentage increases/decreases since last year
  • Combine fields, eg:
    • Profit / Employee

• Example format:

<financials>
#version=1.0|currency="USD"|currency_symbol="$"
#year=2002|income=1.500.000|costs=5.000.000|profit=-4.000.000|debt=3.000.000|employees=900|dividend=0.00
#year=2003|income=6.500.000|costs=4.000.000|profit=1.000.000|debt=400.000|employees=1.400|dividend=0.20
#year=2004|income=7.500.000|costs=4.500.000|profit=3.000.000|debt=800.000|employees=1.650|dividend=0.30
</financials>

• Output ideas:
  • • Use multiple columns (representing the fiscal years of the company) for the table/CSS output rendering.
      • CSS table gallery

PHP chart/graphing resources

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot
• http://nemesis.metal.ntua.gr/phpchartPlus/
• http://www.scriptstop.co.uk/index.php?custom=yes&TID=go&usewrapper=no&linkid=1212
• http://www.ashishkasturia.com/downloads/
• http://phpreports.sourceforge.net
• PHP & GD introduction

Related resources

• GOOG financial information presentation by Google.

Mediawiki extensions