Company management often analyzes financial statement data to understand how the business is performing relative to where it was historically, and relative to where it wants to go in the future.

A percentage is a proportion that shows a number as parts per hundred. The symbol '%' means 'per cent'. 9% means 9 out of every 100, or \(\frac{9}{100}\). Knowledge of converting between decimals, ...

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...