BigQuant Financial Data Fields and Historical Reporting Periods

Summary

This BigQuant forum exchange addresses two questions about accessing A-share financial statement data. The first asks why requesting a prior-year return-on-equity field by adding a suffix to the current field name causes an error. The reply explains that the referenced prior-year field is not present in the documented data fields, so the platform cannot resolve it, and points the user toward selecting a time period instead.

The second question asks how to calculate year-over-year growth for the latest quarterly report and whether a quarter-index field is needed. The visible answer does not resolve this part, and the explanation about selecting a time period is cut off. The exchange is useful as a reminder to verify field names against a vendor's data dictionary rather than assuming suffixes encode historical periods. It does not provide a complete retrieval procedure or a formula for quarterly growth, so those details cannot be inferred from the post.

Key ideas

• The user reports an error when requesting a prior-year ROE field by adding a suffix to the field name.
• The reply says the requested suffixed field is absent from the documented data schema.
• The response points toward selecting a time period to retrieve historical values.
• The question about year-over-year quarterly growth is left unanswered in the available text.

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