Class 12th Accountancy 2017 Set2 Delhi Board Paper Solution

Question 20

State any four limitation of analysis of financial statements. 

Answer

Following are the limitation of analysis of financial statements:

(i) It ignores price level changes as a change in price level makes analysis of financial statements of different accounting years invalid.

(ii) It suffers from the limitations of financial statements as the analysis is based on the information given in the financial statements.



(iii) It ignores qualitative and non monetary aspect as the quality of management, quality of staff etc. are ignored while carrying out the analysis of financial statements.

(iv) It is not free from bias of accountants such as method of inventory valuation , method of depreciation etc.

(v) It may lead to window dressing i.e. showing a better financial position than what actually is by manipulating the books of accounts.

(vi) It may be misleading without the knowledge of the changes in accounting procedure by a firm.