Calculating profit as a percentage of revenue shows relative profitability, like Apple's 30.5% vs Fitbit's 20.5%. Common size income statements allow comparisons across companies and time by ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

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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.