What is horizontal analysis?

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a measurement of a company's ability to meet its short$-$term financial obligations

What is horizontal analysis?

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a measurement of a company's ability to meet its short$-$term financial obligations

a measurement of the income or operating success of a company over a given period of time

a tool for evaluating multiple years of data from financial statements

an evaluation technique where each item in a financial statement is expressed as a percentage of a base amount

James Jeans is doing a better job running their business and improving profitability than its closest competitor.

James Jeans is an overall profitable business and has improved its profitability; however, the company is still less profitable than its closest competitor.

James Jeans was successful in growing the business and bottom line and should be able to overtake its closest competitor to become more profitable.

James Jeans has done a successful job negotiating raw materials prices and compensating the sales team to improve financial results, but, their competitor may be doing this better.