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Area D&B Quick Check

This package contains in particular meaningful financial and risk data of a requested supplier or company. Graphically prepared data such as the risk indicator or the Paydex® (payment behaviour) show at a glance whether the requested supplier has a high or low default risk or a positive or negative payment behaviour.

  • Risk Indicator: The D&B Risk Indicator represents a firm’s probability of bankruptcy on a scale of one (lowest risk of default) to four (highest risk of default) for the next twelve months.

  • Paydex: As a weighted index, the Paydex® shows on a scale of 0-100 how punctually a company pays its bills.
    PaydexMethod of payment100Early90Cash discount utilisation80As agreed7010 days after payment deadline6020 days after payment deadline5030 days after payment deadline4060 days after payment deadline3090 days after payment deadline20120 days after payment deadline10150 days after payment deadline0180 days after payment deadlineUNNo specification possible

Firmendaten

  • RequestedD-U-N-S number: Requested company has the same DUNS number, unless it was requested on a branch.

  • Company name: Primary name of the company.

  • Unregistered name: Unregistered name of the requested company.

  • Date of incorporation: The year in which the business was started.

  • Date of registration: Year in which the legal form of the company was changed.

  • Commercial registration number: Primary company identification number issued by a public authority or the Chamber of Commerce.

  • Local registry type: code containing the main business identification number used in the country.

  • Legal form: Legal structure registered with the authorities.

  • Business activity ceased (yes/no): Indicator signals that this company has ceased its activities.

Address and communication data

  • Registered office: Actual address of the registered office.

  • Postcode: Postcode of the city/region in which the company is based.

  • Postal city: Postal city of the company’s registered office.

  • P.O. Box: Not the physical address.

  • Primary Geographical District: Main sub-unit within a country. Could be a state, province, region (e.g. England).

  • Secondary geographic area: Country (or similar) where the company is located.

  • Country ISO key: Indicates the country in which the company is based.

  • Phone number: Includes the area / local code. Most data centers have more than one phone number. “UNKNOWN” may be present. Varying format.

  • Fax number: Fax number of the company.

Industry

  • Local industry code type: Identification of the classification of activities.

  • Local industry code: Local Activity Classification.

  • SIC type: version of the SIC.

  • SIC: Standard Industrial Classification.

Financial data

  • D&B Credit Recommendation: Recommended Line of Credit.

  • Collateral: Indicates if there are any secured details such as UCC, secured mortgages, pledges or similar.

  • Intangible assets: total intangible assets.

  • Balance sheet date: Date of the current balance sheet.

  • Currency code of the balance sheet: Currency unit of the balance sheet if different from the standard.

  • P&L date: date of the profit and loss account.

  • P&L start date: Date on which the profit and loss account starts.

  • P&L end date: Date on which the profit and loss account ends.

  • Equity: Total amount of equity. Including capital, retained earnings, etc.

  • Available equity: equity minus intangible assets.

  • Status available equity: Determines available equity.

  • Available equity – Text: Equity minus intangible assets if it cannot be converted to a numeric field.

  • Year control: Year in which the control was started.

  • Receivables: Indicates whether there are any open collection claims, court claims, bill protests, or the like.

  • Annual turnover: annual turnover of this company.

  • Annual Turnover – Text: Annual turnover of this company, if this cannot be assigned to a numeric field.

  • Consolidated annual sales: Qualified annual sales volume.

  • Annual sales volumeresearched: Qualified annual sales volume.

  • Sales: Sales after discounts and rebates.

Risk data and payment behaviour

  • D&B Rating: The rating assigned by Dun and Bradstreet.

  • Payment history: Payment index for the last 12 months.

  • Industry Standard Payment Index: Mean or average industrypayment index .

  • Open actions and/or judgments: Indicates whether there are any open actions, judgments, petitions, or payment notices.

  • Criminal Proceedings: Indicates whether there are any court proceedings.

  • Special Events: Indicates whether special events exist that involve operational changes including name changes, management changes, leadership changes, relocation, or similar.

  • Other special events: Indicates whether there are any other special events not previously mentioned.

  • Special Catastrophic Events: Indicates whether special catastrophic events, such as fires, hurricanes, or the like, are present.

  • Special financial/legal events: Indicates whether special events exist.

  • Poor financial condition: Indicates whether the company is in bankruptcy, has administrators appointed to liquidate it, or similar.

  • History: This code indicates whether there is any adverse information about this company and whether full details of the management and company exist.

Employees

  • Title functionary: Title functionary.

    • Name of functionary: Name of functionary.

    • Title of Chief Executive Officer/CEO: Free Fomat Field for the title of Chief Executive Officer.

    • Name of Managing Director/CEO: Name of the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

    • Local employees: Number of employees at the specified address.

    • Employees local – Text: Number of employees at the specified address if it cannot be assigned to a numeric field.

    • Employees researched locally: qualifies the calculation of employees here.

    • Employee minimum local: Qualifies the calculation of employees here.

    • Total number of employees: Total number of employees.

    • Total Employees – Text: Total number of employees if this cannot be assigned to a numeric field.

    • Employees total researched: Qualifies the calculation of the total employees.

    • Total employees qualified: Qualifies the calculation of the total employees.

    • Total employee minimum qualified: Qualifies the calculation of the total employees.

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