Company management often analyzes financial statement data to understand how the business is performing relative to where it was historically, and relative to where it wants to go in the future.

Common-size financial statements present financial information in terms of percentages instead of dollar values. On a common-size statement, each line item is expressed as a percentage of a reference ...

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For a book project we are working on we conducted a common size analysis of Total SA’s (TOT) financial statements. We figured it would be something worth passing along here. Total’s common-size ...

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