comparative statement

American  

noun

1. a financial statement with figures arranged in two or more parallel columns, each column representing a fiscal year or other period, used to compare performance between periods.

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Example Sentences

This is confirmed by the following comparative statement of pieces mailed:— One week preceding 5th April, 1851, No. of letters, 41,000; papers, 90,000.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong

The following is extracted from a comparative statement of the increase of the principal articles of produce which arrived at the New Orleans market during a period of three years.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Kirby in his "Butterflies and Moths" makes this comparative statement: "The border is whitest in British specimens, and perhaps yellowest in American ones."

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.

A comparative statement, he added, of the value of the exports of the two countries, would assist in confirming this opinion.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

All seem to view the comparative statement of the prices of teas in the same light that I do, as fatal to the monopoly.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of