The qualities of financial accounting include Relevance, Materiality, Reliability, Understandability and Comparability. Comparability includes financial reports from different periods that should be compared with one another in order to derive meaningful conclusions about the trends in an entity’s financial performance and position over time. Comparability can be ensured by applying the same accounting policies over time.

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