Connect 1 Semester Access Card for Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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Author: Fred Phillips Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 13.3ME
Interpreting Horizontal Analyses
Refer to the calculations from M13-1. What are the two most significant year-over-year changes in terms of dollars and in terms of percentages? Give one potential cause of each of these changes.
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When performing a horizontal analysis on an income statement, the percentage change inany individual item is calculated by dividing the dollar amount of the change from the baseperiod to the current period bya. the base period amount.b. the current period amount.c. the amount estimated for the future period.d. the average of the base and the current period amounts.
In horizontal analysis, each item is expressed as a percentage of the
a. latest year figure.
b. net income figure.
c. total assets.
O d. earliest year figure.
Vertical analysis compares each item on a financial statement with:
a corresponding item on a different statement of the same year.
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a total or key amount on the same statement.
an industry average.
a total or key amount on the financial statement of the previous period.
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Connect 1 Semester Access Card for Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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