Comparing individual items in your financial statements to prior periods is one way to measure financial performance. Another way is to compare individual items to your expectations or forecasts.

Comparison of an Income Statement to a Budget. Your company's accountant, controller or chief financial officer oversees the accounting and finance functions.

If you omit COMPARE=, the comparison data set is the same as the base data set, and PROC COMPARE compares variables within the data set. Restriction: If you omit COMPARE=, you must use the WITH ...

You can use the IF statement alongside Excel's conditional formatting to change the cell's color based on conditions. You can also put IF statements within others to test multiple conditions within a ...

A comparison of the Federal Reserve's statements from its meeting on Nov. 2-3 and the meeting that ended Tuesday.

The COMPARE statement compares multiple loans and it can be used with a single loan. You can use only one COMPARE statement. COMPARE statement options specify the periods and desired types of analysis ...