A comparative balance sheet analysis is a method of analyzing a company's balance sheet over time to identify changes and trends. Public companies are required to include the information needed for a ...

Company management often analyzes financial statement data to understand how the business is performing relative to where it was historically, and relative to where it wants to go in the future.

Common-size financial statements present financial information in terms of percentages instead of dollar values. On a common-size statement, each line item is expressed as a percentage of a reference ...