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Financial analysis is the analysis of the accounts and the economic prospects of a firm.

Table of contents

1 Goals
2 Methods
3 See also

Goals

Such an analysis has for objective to assess the firm's:

performance, for the management to improve it,
solvency, so as for a bank or a supplier to grant a credit,
potential value to decide an investment or divestment.

Methods

Financial analysts, among other tasks, use to compare financial ratios (of solvency, profitability, growth...) between several periods and between similar firms.

Those ratios are calculated by dividing a (group of) account balance(s), taken from the balance sheet and / or the income statement, by another, for example :

Net profit / equity = return on equity.

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