A utility to download financial statements for
publically traded companies. The data is directly
from Google finance. All use of the data is
under there Terms of Service, available at
http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS.
Individual statements can be accessed using
standard R list extraction tools, or by
using viewFinancials
.
viewFinancials
allows for the use of
date subsetting as available in the xts
package, as well as the specification of
the type of statement to view. BS for balance
sheet, IS for income statement, and CF for cash flow
statement. The period argument is used to identify
which statements to view - (A) for annual and (Q)
for quarterly.