Published financial statements are historical in nature and do not provide the information needed for some informed investment decision. Nonetheless, historical information can be used to make projections and is sometimes extremely useful in some respect. The limitations of using historical information must, of course, be recognized in preparing them. The Managing director of XYZ Plc was presented with below historic information on a corporation he is intending to acquire for his organization. As a financial manager with XYZ Plc you are asked to prepare a comparable horizontal and vertical analysis of the information presented you below using year and Revenue respectively for your analysis.

Published financial statements are historical in nature and do not provide the information needed for some informed investment decision. Nonetheless, historical information can be used to make projections and is sometimes extremely useful in some respect. The limitations of using historical information must, of course, be recognized in preparing them. The Managing director of XYZ Plc was presented with below historic information on a corporation he is intending to acquire for his organization. As a financial manager with XYZ Plc you are asked to prepare a comparable horizontal and vertical analysis of the information presented you below using year and Revenue respectively for your analysis.

Intermediate Accounting: Reporting And Analysis

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Author:James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald Pagach

Publisher:James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald Pagach

Chapter2: Financial Reporting: Its Conceptual Framework

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