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What is the purpose by using different analytical tools to measure the financial statement?
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The student wanted to know how analytical tools can be beneficial in measuring a firm's performance. The answer relates to how tools are used, the interpretations of the results, and the limitations of these numbers.
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Financial statements offer insights into a firm's performance, and the information contained in these statements helps stakeholders in their decision-making. So, for example, a senior manager may be interested in profitability because it affects the long-term continuity of the firm. Similarly, stockholders will want to look at profitability because it affects the stock price.
But how do these stakeholders make sense of the information on the statements? How can they, for example, say that one firm is ...
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