Analysis of Financial Statements
Keywords:
Debt maturities, Financial planning, Financial statements, Fixed assetsAbstract
Financial Statement Analysis is a method of reviewing and analysing a company‘s accounting reports (financial statements) in order to gauge its past, present or projected future performance. This process of reviewing the financial statements allows for better economic decision making. The main purpose of financial statement analysis is to utilize information about the past performance of the company in order to predict how it will fare in the future. Another important purpose of the analysis of financial statements is to identify potential problem areas and troubleshoot those.