One of the most effective ways to compare two businesses is to perform a ratio analysis on each company's financial statements. A ratio analysis looks at various numbers in the financial statements ...

Effective planning and financial management are the keys to running a financially successful small business. Ratio analysis is critical for helping you understand financial statements, for identifying ...

Financial ratios are calculations that compare two (or more) pieces of financial data that are normally found in a company's financial statements. Ratios can be invaluable to investors making ...

Financial analysis is an aspect of the overall business finance function that involves examining historical data to gain information about the current and future financial health of a company.

Return-on-equity (ROE) is the correct profit metric to evaluate the performance of a business. However, the primary emphasis on financial ratio analysis must be on operating performance. The “advanced ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Budgeting or forecasting is extremely important for F&B companies of all sizes. Many companies use top-down or bottom-up approaches, but regardless, it is unacceptable when a company says it can’t do ...

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is America's second largest natural gas producer and the 11th largest producer of liquids in the country. That being said a company can be an industry leader and not a ...

A financial analysis report of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, composed during the 3Q of the 2019 year. The years 2016, 2017, and 2018 are examined and used to project future financial statement values.

We (Kim, Muhn and Nikolaev) examine to what extent general-purpose large language models (LLM) such as GPT4 can make informed financial decisions based on mostly numerical financial data. We provide ...

Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in accounting including public accounting, financial reporting, and accounting policies. Jared Ecker is a researcher and fact-checker.