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"It is meaningless to financially analyse a company without understanding the context and environment in which it operates". Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement.  

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"It is meaningless to financially analyse a company without understanding the context and environment in which it operates". Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. Introduction Financial analysis is the use of financial statements to analyze a company's financial position and performance, and to assess future financial performance.1 Therefore, it is a subjective and complex task. To effectively accomplish this task we should adopt interdisciplinary perspective. This includes understanding the context and environment in which a company operates. So, this essay is tending to discuss the understanding of context and environment in which to interpret the financial statement, and examine it is an important and essential part of financial analysis. To examine this discussion, this essay is divided into four main parts: the first part illustrates the important role of the context and environment in which a company operates through a discussion of MicroStrategy case ; the second part examines...

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