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What is the purpose of financial statement analysis? What are some of the tools that we can use to analyze financial performance? What should we use to benchmark our performance? Why?

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What is the purpose of financial statement analysis? What are some of the tools that we can use to analyze financial performance? What should we use to benchmark our performance? Why?

The purpose of analyzing financial statements is to assess past performance and current financial position and to make ...

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