Horizontal Analysis of Comparative Financial Statements Includes the

question 39

Multiple Choice

Horizontal analysis of comparative financial statements includes the

• A) development of common size statements.
• B) calculation of liquidity ratios.
• C) calculation of dollar amount changes and percentage changes from the previous to the current year.
• D) the evaluation of each component in a financial statement to a total within the statement.

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers together and dividing by the count of those numbers.

Median

A statistical measure representing the middle value in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data, or a specific way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution without violating any constraints.