Class 12th Accountancy 2017 Set3 Delhi Board Paper Solution

Question 20

State any two limitations and any two objectives of ‘Analysis of Financial Statements’.

Answer

Limitations 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.

 

Objectives of Analysis of Financial Statements:

(i) To assess the earning capacity and profitability of the organisation.

(ii) To assess the efficiency of managers as well as business by calculating finanical rations and look at the trend at their variations. 

(iii) To provide meaningful information about changes in the financial data over time via comparisions of related datas.