Summarized Income statement of Investment Companies

National Statistical Institute

"Annual Business Statistics and Business Registers" Department

Desislava Asenova

Shief expert

2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 477

The survey covers activities of specialised investment enterprises, which are licensed in accordance with national legislation.

All of them are classified in class 64.30 by NACE.BG-2008 and class 65.23 by NACE.BG-2003. Since 2008 the data are compiled by NACE.BG-2008.

The annual data of specialised investment enterprises are aggregated in 64.30 by NACE.BG-2008 and class 65.23 by NACE.BG-2003.

· National Classification of Economic Activities (NCEA-2003, for international use NACE.BG-2003) - in force till 31.12.2007;

· Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008) - in force since 01.01.2008.

Specialised investment enterprises, classified in class 64.30 by NACE.BG-2008 from 2008 onwards, and class 65.23 by NACE.BG-2003 for the period 2005-2007.

The main indicators are:

· Basic indicators from Assets and Liabilities sides of Balance sheet;

· Basic indicators from Income Statement.

The basic unit of survey is a specialised investment enterprise.

The specialised investment enterprise is an enterprise registered, licensed and supervised as specialised investment enterprise in accordance with actual legislation.

The survey of specialised investment enterprises is exhaustive and the statistical population includes all specialised investment enterprises classified in class 64.30 by NACE.BG-2008 from 2008 onwards, and class 65.23 by NACE.BG-2003 for the period 2005 - 2007.

The data refer to the activities of specialised investment enterprises carried out in the country.

2005 - to the last reference year.

Not applicable.

Thousand BGN (all indicators).

Calendar year.

Bulgarian legislation:

· Law on Statistics;

· Commercial Law;

· National Statistical Programme;

· Accounting and tax legislation.

The data for specialised investment enterprises are provided in accordance with signed agreements for data exchange, ensuring the protection of confidential information.

Regulation (EC) № 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 defines common criteria for protection of confidential data and methods for sending the information to and its use by Eurostat. The Law on Statistics ensures the protection of statistical confidentiality and the use of individual data of enterprises for statistical purposes only.

The individual (primary) data are confidential according to the Law on Statistics and European legislation. To ensure their protection and inability to be identified, the aggregated indicators are also defined as confidential when:

· Criterion A - the indicator is calculated from one or two enterprises;

· Criterion B - one enterprise forms 85% or more of the total value of this indicator.

The data are published in accordance with the deadline specified in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the NSI website and are available to all users of statistical information.

Yearly.

Regular press release for the preliminary data.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book.

The data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Business statistics -Annual business statistics - Other annual data- Activity of Investment Companies: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/6577

Not available.

Information service on request, according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services of NSI.

Methodological manual concerning data of specialised investment enterprises, based on the national legislation in the same field.

Not applicable.

This includes the improvement of the collecting of primary data system, which ensures strict arithmetical and logical input control. The additional output control is made when are registered the big differences in the value of given indicator between two consecutive years.

This is made in accordance with the standard criteria for assessing the quality - relevance, accuracy and reliability, timeliness, comparability and coherence.

The main users of data are:

· Interested state institutions under signed agreements;

· Research institutes, universities, economic analysts and students;

· Private non-governmental organisations, agencies, associations, media, etc.;

· Directorates and departments in the NSI.

There has been no study of user satisfaction, but no cases of outstanding requests for information are registered.

Full compliance with Bulgarian and EU legislation.

The statistical data have good accuracy and reliability.

The survey of specialised investment enterprises is exhaustive and there are no sampling errors.

Not applicable.

The deadlines for the publication of data on national level are t+8 months for the preliminary data and t+11 months for the final data, where t is the reference year.

The deadlines are strictly followed.

For state territory the data are geographical comparable.

The comparability of the data is limited by the use of different classifications of economic activities (NACE.BG-2008 and NACE.BG-2003), if there is a difference in the scope of the activity. The data series of specialised investment enterprises are fully comparable for the period 2005 - the last reference year.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

NSI of Bulgaria is making extraordinary efforts to reduce the respondents' burden. An example is the signed agreement called "Single Entry Point" between NSI and the National Revenue Agency for a single providing of the annual reports and using the data from both institutions. Developed by NSI on-line based information system "Business Statistics" and ensured methodological and technical assistance to respondents during the reporting campaign are highly appreciated by respondents and help to reduce their workload.

The National policy allows the revision of already published data if there are serious reasons.

The revised data replace the already published data as soon as possible after the revision is made.

The main data source for calculating the data of specialised investment enterprises are special "Annual report of activities of specialised investment enterprises".

Yearly.

Exhaustively for all specialised investment enterprises covered in the survey.

Data validation is made by additional logical input control and comparison between the output data and the results of the previous year and other surveys, carried out by NSI.

The survey is exhaustive and further data evaluation is not made.

Not applicable.