What is techniques of Financial statement analysis?
Financial statement analysis is used to understand the financial position during a particular period. According to Myres, Financial statement analysis is largely a study of the relationship among the various financial factors in the business as disclosed by a single set of statement and study of the trend these factors as shown in the series of statement.
Financial statement analysis on the basis of material used.
External Analysis: - outsiders of the business do normally external analysis but they are indirectly involved in the business concern such as investors, creditors, government organizations and credit agencies. External analysis is very useful to understand financial & operational position of the organization. It has been observe that the people who are keen in share market investment. They check comparative income & position statement of the organization, and understand the business position of the organization to scale on the various analysis. Like net sales, gross profit, net profit, reserve and surplus, sundry creditors, sundry debtors of organization for financial year.
Internal Analysis: it is used to understand about business unit, cell & divisional perforamce internally. Which department is performing well and which is not and what action should be taken to make that department profitable.
Financial Analysis on operational method
Horizontal Analysis: Under horizontal analysis, financial statements are compared with several years and based on that, a firm may take decision, normally , the current year’s figure are compared with base year( base Year is considered 100) and how financial information’s are changed from one year to another year.
Vertical Analysis: Under Vertical analysis financial statement measures the quantities relationship of various items in the financial statement on particular period.
Techniques used for financial analysis.
There are lots of techniques used for financial analysis are Ratio Analysis, Comparative statement Analysis, Trend Analysis, Common Size Analysis, Fund Flow Statement.
Ratio Analysis: it is used to understand a mathematical relationship between one numbers to another number. Ratio is used as an index for evaluating the financial performance of the business concern. An accounting ratio show the mathematical relationship between two figures.
Ratio Analysis is used four ways.
Liquidity Ratio
Activity Ratio
Solvency Ratio
Profitability Ration.
A. Liquidity Ratio: This ratio is used to understand liquidity in the business. This ration express the relationship between current assets and current liabilities of concern business during a particular period of time.
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