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

I have in my hand two accounts; one, a comparative statement of the export trade of England to its colonies, as it stood in the year 1704, and as it stood in the year 1772.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

The present occasion, although allowing of no lengthened remarks, may yet, perhaps, admit of a short comparative statement of important subjects of national interest as they existed at that day, and as they now exist.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

But no such comparative statement would have satisfied Mam' Lyddy.

From Mam' Lyddy's Recognition 1908 by Page, Thomas Nelson

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