[Verse 1]
Balance sheets and income statements scattered on the desk
Numbers jumping wildly, making comparisons a mess
Apple's millions, startup's thousands, how do we compare?
Common-size analysis transforms chaos into something fair
[Chorus]
Vertical slices, horizontal traces
Convert each dollar to percentage spaces
Base year anchors, current year dancers
Common-size reveals the hidden answers
Every line becomes a fraction of the whole
Making giants and minnows play the same role
[Verse 2]
Take your income statement, revenue becomes one hundred
Every expense below shows what percentage it has plundered
Cost of goods at sixty percent, marketing takes fifteen
Now you see the proportions that raw dollars kept unseen
[Chorus]
Vertical slices, horizontal traces
Convert each dollar to percentage spaces
Base year anchors, current year dancers
Common-size reveals the hidden answers
Every line becomes a fraction of the whole
Making giants and minnows play the same role
[Verse 3]
Horizontal spreads across the years, pick your base year carefully
Twenty-twenty as your anchor, track how trends move yearly
If sales grew fifty percent but costs jumped seventy-five
Your margins tell a story that raw numbers can't describe
[Bridge]
Standardized and crystallized
Percentages equalize
Cross-industry, cross-company
Patterns emerge magically
[Chorus]
Vertical slices, horizontal traces
Convert each dollar to percentage spaces
Base year anchors, current year dancers
Common-size reveals the hidden answers
Every line becomes a fraction of the whole
Making giants and minnows play the same role
[Outro]
When numbers overwhelm your sight
Convert to percentages and bring the light