Vertical analysis

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Vertical analysis is comparing items in a financial report by expressing each item as a percentage of a certain base total.


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According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition)‎,

Vertical analysis. Comparing items in a financial report by expressing each item as a percentage of a certain base total.

According to Managerial Accounting by Braun, Tietz (5th edition),

Vertical analysis. Analysis of a financial statement that reveals the relationship of each statement item to a specified base, which is the 100% figure.

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