Loose Leaf for Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
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ISBN: 9781260158762
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 3E
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Horizontal analysis is one of the techniques of financial statement analysis. This analysis is used to evaluate the changes in the amount of financial statements over a period of time. The trend is calculated in the amount as well as in percentage taking the previous period as the basis.
To calculate:the trend % for the given accounts.
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Perform an index number trend analysis for all the reported items. Using the year 2018 as the base year.
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$ 432,962
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