1 Groups and consolidation: an overview


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Consolidated Financial Statements

lack of detailed information
available to the outsider is a considerable disadvantage in undertaking ratio 
analysis. The first difficulty is that there may simply be insufficient data to calculate all the required ratios. A 
second concerns the availability of a suitable average or standard with which the calculated ratios may be 
compared. 
1.2.1 Trend analysis 
Looking first at trend analysis (comparisons for the same business over time), some of the 
problems
include the following. 

Changes in the nature of the business 

Unrealistic depreciation rates under historical cost accounting 

The changing value of the currency unit being reported 

Changes in accounting policies 
Other factors will include changes in government incentive packages, changes from purchasing 
equipment to leasing and so on. 
1.2.2 Comparisons across companies 
When making comparisons with other companies, the position is even more difficult because of the 
problem of identifying companies that are comparable. 
Comparability
between companies may be 
impaired due to the following reasons. 
(a) 
Different degrees of diversification 
(b) 
Different production and purchasing policies (if an investor was analysing the smaller car 
manufacturers, they would find that some of them buy in engines from one of the 'majors' while 
others develop and manufacture their own) 
(c) Different 
financing 
policies 
(eg leasing as opposed to buying) 
(d) 
Different accounting policies (one of the most serious problems particularly in relation to non-
current assets and inventory valuation) 
(e) 
Different effects of government incentives 
The major 
intra-group comparison organisations
(whose results are intended for the use of participating 
companies and are not generally available) go to considerable length to adjust accounts to comparable 
bases. The external user will rarely be in a position to make such adjustments. Although the position is 
improved by increases in disclosure requirements, direct comparisons between companies will inevitably
on occasion, continue to give rise to misleading results. 
1.3 Social and political considerations 
Social considerations tend to be 
short-lived
or 'fashionable' and therefore each set of statements can be 
affected by a different movement or fad. In recent years, the social aspect much in evidence has been 
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