It is a branch of knowledge whose fundamentals and objectives revolve around
obtaining quantitative measures and relationships for decision making, through the application of mathematical instruments and techniques on figures and data provided by accounting, transforming them for their proper interpretation.
Consequently, the process of financial analysis is based on the application of tools and a set of tools and a set of techniques.
and a set of techniques that are applied to the financial statements and other complementary data, for the purpose of
data, with the purpose of obtaining quantitative measures and relationships that indicate the behavior, not only of the economic entity, but also of certain
economic entity, but also of some of its most significant and important variables.
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Analysis Instruments
During the process of financial statement analysis, a wide range of possibilities are available to satisfy the
a diverse range of possibilities are available to meet the objectives undertaken in planning and carrying out such an evaluation task.
evaluation.
The analyst can then choose the tools that best satisfy the purpose sought, among which the following stand out
The following are the most important ones:
:check: Comparative analysis
:check: Trend analysis
:check: Proportional financial statements
Sources of information
As is only logical, in order to carry out a process of analysis or interpretation of financial statements, the sources of information from which the data to be used for the evaluation must be identified and studied.
the sources of information from which the data that will be used for such evaluation come from must be identified and studied.
Likewise, the chambers of commerce and the entity that groups them together (CONFECÁMARAS), the state surveillance
state oversight agencies -such as the Superintendencies of Corporations, Banking and Securities- and the guilds that group together the various economic activities of the companies,
periodically publish serious studies and interesting statistics that can be used in the financial analysis of companies.
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