Hank is a U.S. citizen and is doing a three to six-year assignment as a sales executive in Paris for a French company, which began this year. Hank earned $109,500 working for the French company this year but only lived in France for 180 days (out of 365 days). He will live full-time in France next year. What amount of Hank's $109,500 salary this year will he be allowed to exclude from gross income in the U.S. (rounded to the nearest one-hundred dollars)

When doing time trend analysis for financial ratios we can know how a company's ratio's have changed over time or if they have remained the same, so for example if a company's current ratio was less than 1 a year ago and is 3 now it means that the company was not very liquid a year ago but since then has made changes because of which it is liquid now, so we can see how a company has performed over a certain period of time.

On the other hand peer group analysis tells us how a company is performing compared to other companies in the same industry. For example if our cement company has a profit margin of 7% but the industry average is 15% we know that our company is doing something wrong  or different as compared to the industry and we can look into it.

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