Financial Data

List Line Item Definitions

Retrieve the full dictionary of standardized financial KPIs.

Each definition describes one line item that may appear in extracted financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement). Use the depth and parent_code fields to reconstruct the Capital IQ-style hierarchy.

templates lists the KPI templates a line item is meaningful for (industrial, bank, insurer); filter with ?template=bank. Industrial-only items are still served for banks and insurers, but do not mean the same thing there.

Access Level Required: Requires Standard Access (Level 1).

get/line-item-definitions/

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.financialreports.eu
  • URL: https://api.financialreports.eu/line-item-definitions/
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header X-API-Key
    • HTTP bearer

Query parameters

depthinteger

Filter by hierarchy depth (0 = top-level, 1 = component, 2 = sub-component).

pageinteger

A page number within the paginated result set.

page_sizeinteger

Number of results to return per page.

parent_codestring

Filter by parent line item code (e.g. 'gross_profit' returns its children).

searchstring

A search term.

statement_type'BS' | 'CFS' | 'IS' | 'SUP'

Filter by statement type (IS, BS, CFS, SUP).

  • IS - Income Statement
  • BS - Balance Sheet
  • CFS - Cash Flow Statement
  • SUP - Supplemental / Ratio
template'bank' | 'industrial' | 'insurer'

Filter to the line items meaningful for a KPI template (industrial, bank, insurer).

  • industrial - industrial
  • bank - bank
  • insurer - insurer

Response

countinteger required

Total matching results. Exact for cheap queries, an estimate on broad or expensive ones. Do not use it to decide when to stop: follow next until it is null.

nextstring uri nullable
previousstring uri nullable

Example response

{
  "count": 123,
  "next": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?page=4",
  "previous": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?page=2"
}

Changes

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