Ratios Are Used as Tools in Financial Analysis

question 64

Multiple Choice

Ratios are used as tools in financial analysis

• A)instead of horizontal and vertical analyses.
• B)because they can provide information that may not be apparent from inspection of the individual components of the financial statements.
• C)because even single ratios by themselves are quite meaningful.
• D)because they are prescribed by GAAP.

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