Polyarchy Company Filings

ChatGPTby Kenichi Okamura

Polyarchy Company Filings is a read-only reference service for figures that Japanese companies disclose in their annual securities reports filed on EDINET (Financial Services Agency of Japan). It covers the "key management indicators" table, employee information, segment information and regional information. What it returns: values exactly as written in the filing (XBRL), with the document ID, filing date, element name and a link to the filing. Consolidated and non-consolidated figures are separate series and every value says which one it is. Segment and regional tables are returned with the company's own categories and labels. What it does not do: for a single company it does not compute derived figures such as margins or growth rates, and it does not map a company's own categories onto a common scheme. If an item is not disclosed, it returns found=false with the reason and the list of items the company does disclose, rather than a neighbouring item or period. Many companies do not report "net sales": IFRS companies, banks and holding companies report a different top-line item, and the service says which. Screening across companies (screen_companies, screen_trend) is the one place where the server computes derived values, using fixed formulas and returning the disclosed inputs and their sources for every row. Companies that cannot be compared are returned as exclusions with a reason and a count. It does not provide stock prices, forecasts or investment advice. Values belong to each filing company; check the original filing. Tool descriptions and results are in Japanese. Tool arguments are logged for 30 days for quality improvement; conversation content is not collected.