Sector Evaluation Tool | User Guide & Live Report

01.Tool Description

The Sector Evaluation Tool is a PHP-based analytical module that connects to a live MySQL database of registered companies and produces an on-demand financial health report for an entire economic sector, rather than for a single company. Instead of asking a user to type in financial figures, the tool pulls, sums, and analyzes the real accounting data (sales, purchases, expenses, interest, other revenue and assets) already stored for every company that matches a chosen country, industrial sector and year.

It is part of the wider Geneec platform, which also lets users evaluate individual companies and stocks, post free project ads, and search for jobs and products — this page focuses specifically on the sector-level evaluation engine.

🌍 Multi-country

Covers virtually every country in the world through a standard country selector.

🏭 ISIC classification

Sectors follow the UN's International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), from Agriculture to Extraterritorial bodies.

📆 Multi-year

Reports can be generated for fiscal years 2011 through 2015.

🧮 4 financial standards

Combines Product, Activity, Debit and Efficiency standards into one composite verdict.

02.Purpose & Goal

The main goal of the tool is to give a fast, objective, data-driven answer to a simple but important question: “How healthy is this sector, in this country, in this year?” It removes the need for manual spreadsheet work by automatically:

Aggregating the accounting data of every company that belongs to the chosen sector, country and year.
Calculating standardized profitability, activity, debt and efficiency ratios for the sector as a whole.
Translating those ratios into a plain-language performance grade — from Excellent down to Loss.
Helping decision-makers compare sectors and years without needing an accounting background.

03.How It Works (Mechanism)

Select the criteria. The user chooses a country, an ISIC sector and a fiscal year from the form below and submits it.
Secure database query. The tool runs a prepared (parameterized) SQL statement against the company table, summing every matching company's financial fields and counting how many companies were found.
Display the raw totals. The aggregated totals (sales, purchases, gross profit, expenses, debit interest, other revenue, net profit, assets and company count) are printed as a summary table.
Compute the four standards. From those totals the engine derives four ratios — Product, Activity, Debit and Efficiency — each comparing an averaged cost base to the profit it produced.
Classify each ratio. Every ratio is compared against fixed thresholds and mapped to one of seven grades, from Excellent to Loss.
Combine standards & render the verdict. Related standards are cross-checked together (e.g. Product with Activity, Activity with Debit) and the matching narrative snippet is included, producing the full, human-readable evaluation report shown at the bottom of the page.

The Four Financial Standards

1. Product Standard

Relates Sales and Purchases to the resulting Gross Profit (Sales − Purchases). A low ratio signals a healthy trading margin.

2. Activity Standard

Relates Sales, Purchases and Expenses to the Net Operating Profit (Sales − (Purchases + Expenses)), reflecting operational efficiency.

3. Debit Standard

Adds Debit Interest into the cost base to measure profit after financing costs, highlighting the impact of borrowing on the sector.

4. Efficiency Standard

Compares the sector's Assets to its Net Profit, showing how productively the sector's asset base is being used.

The 7-Level Rating Scale

Each standard's ratio is mapped onto the same scale — the smaller the ratio, the stronger the underlying profit margin:

Ratio range	Grade
0 – 2	Excellent
2 – 4	Very Good
4 – 7	Good
7 – 12	Acceptable
12 – 50	Poor
> 50	Very Poor
Negative profit	Loss

04.Required Data

Two kinds of input feed the tool: the criteria you select on screen, and the accounting data already stored in the database for each company.

A. Selection criteria (entered by the user)

Field	Description
Country	The country where the companies operate.
Sector	The ISIC industry classification (e.g. Manufacturing, Construction, Financial services).
Year	The fiscal year to evaluate (2011–2015).

B. Company records already in the database

DB field	Meaning
`n1`	Sales value
`n2`	Purchases value
`n9`	Gross profit
`n3`	Expenses
`n4`	Debit interest
`n5`	Other revenues
`n24`	Net profit
`n6`	Assets value
`country / sect / year`	Used to filter which companies are included in the aggregation.

All figures are summed with SQL's SUM() across every company that matches the chosen country, sector and year, and the query is executed as a prepared statement to protect against SQL injection.

05.Explanation of Results

After submitting the form, two blocks of output appear:

The data table — the raw, aggregated totals pulled straight from the database: total Sales, Purchases, Gross profit, Expenses, Debit interest, Other revenues, Net profit, Assets value, and the number of companies included in the calculation. This is the evidence behind the verdict.
The evaluation report — a written verdict built from the four standards described above. It states, in plain language, whether the sector's trading margin, operating performance, debt burden and asset efficiency are Excellent, Very Good, Good, Acceptable, Poor, Very Poor, or in a Loss position for the selected country, sector and year.

If no company records match the chosen country, sector and year, the tool simply reports that there are no companies available for that combination.

06.Practical Example

Suppose a user selects Country: Egypt, Sector: 10 – Manufacture of food products, Year: 2015, and the database returns 12 matching companies with the following aggregated totals:

Sales	Purchases	Expenses	Debit interest	Other revenue	Assets	Companies
1,000,000	600,000	150,000	20,000	30,000	900,000	12

Step-by-step calculation:

Gross profit = 1,000,000 − 600,000 = 400,000
Product Standard ratio ≈ (1,000,000 − 300,000) / 400,000 = 1.75 → within the Excellent range
Net operating profit = 1,000,000 − (600,000 + 150,000) = 250,000
Activity Standard ratio ≈ (1,000,000 − 375,000) / 250,000 = 2.5 → within the Very Good range
The tool then combines the Product and Activity results into one composite message describing the sector as financially strong with efficient control of purchase and operating costs, while flagging the exact area (if any) that needs improvement.

07.Applications

💼 Investors

Screen which sectors and countries currently show the strongest fundamentals before allocating capital.

🏢 Business owners

Benchmark their own company's ratios against the average performance of their entire sector.

🏛️ Policy makers

Monitor the financial health of key economic sectors over multiple years to guide policy.

🎓 Researchers & students

Use real aggregated sector data for academic studies in finance, economics and accounting.

🏦 Lenders & banks

Get a quick sense of sector-wide debt exposure and repayment capacity via the Debit standard.

📈 Analysts

Track how a sector's profitability and efficiency evolve year over year (2011–2015).

08.Advantages & Limitations

✅ Advantages

Completely free and instant — no manual data entry required.
Uses real, already-verified company records instead of user-supplied guesses.
Standardized ISIC sector classification enables fair, like-for-like comparison.
Four complementary standards give a rounded view: margin, operations, debt and asset efficiency.
Secure, prepared SQL statements protect the underlying data.
Results are expressed in plain language, not just raw numbers.

⚠️ Limitations

Accuracy depends entirely on how complete and correct the underlying company records are.
Coverage is currently limited to fiscal years 2011–2015.
Reports the sector as a whole — it does not evaluate an individual company.
Sectors with very few reporting companies can produce results that are not statistically representative.
Fixed rating thresholds are applied uniformly and are not tailored to every industry's norms.
Does not account for inflation, currency effects, or macroeconomic context between countries.

📊 Sector Evaluation Tool