COMMON SIZE FINANCIAL STATEMENT DEFINITION
- A common size financial statement displays all items as
percentages of a common base figure. This type of financial statement allows for easy analysis between companies
or between time periods of a company. The values on the common size
statement are expressed as percentages of a statement component, such as
revenue.
- The common size size ratio for each line on the
financial statement is calculated as follows
Common Size Ratio
= Item of interest/Reference Item (item of interest divided by reference
item)
Common Size Income
Statement
- The income statement, also referred to as the profit
and loss (P&L) statement, provides an overview of sales, expenses and
net income.
- The income statement equation is sales minus expenses
equals net income. This is why the common size income statement defines
all items as a percentage of sales.
Common Size Balance
Sheet Statement
- The balance sheet equation is assets equals
liabilities plus stockholders' equity. As a result, analysts define the
balance sheet as a percentage of assets.
Common Size Cash Flow
Statement
- The cash flow statement is divided between cash
flows from operations, cash flows from investing and cash flows from
financing.
- The popular version of common size expresses cash flow
in terms of total operational cash flow for items in cash flows from
operations, total investing cash flows for cash flows from investing
activities and total financing cash flows for cash flows from financing
activities.
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