Support session: Financials in LSEG Workspace/Datastream: the basics
This support session is intended for students Economics and Business Administration who consider performing an empirical study with company specific financial data for their BA or MA thesis.
Related LibGuide: Library Guide Business Administration & Economics by Norma Fötsch
- Date:
- Monday, February 23, 2026
- Time:
- 12:20pm - 1:20pm
- Location:
- EOS 01.560 Elinor Ostrom Building (NSM)
- Campus:
- Nijmegen School of Management
- Faculty:
- Nijmegen School of Management
- Categories:
- Other
LSEG Workspace (formerly Eikon/Refinitiv) / Datastream is the flagship among the economic databases of this university. A wide range of variables is available on e.g. equity, stock & money markets, accounting data, options, futures, bonds and much more.
In this support session you will be introduced to some of the most important basic elements in the process of retrieving data from LSEG Workspace. We will focus on company financials, but the process is the same for many other data types as well.
- understand which data types can be found where in LSEG Workspace;
- retrieve financial company data in Excel;
- work with more more advanced requests to find the historical constituents of an index (e.g. the AEX).
After the presentation, there in room for questions from the participants about their thesis topic.
The workshop will take place on campus in the Elinor Ostrom building: EOS 01.560. Duration: up to 1 hour. Language spoken: English.
