If you wish to examine how one aspect of a business is doing relative to other aspects of the business at the current time, you are most likely to use:

If you wish to examine how one aspect of a business is doing relative to other aspects of the business at the current time, you are most likely to use ratio analysis. This type of analysis is important if you want to check the overall quality of a business's work and should therefore be done quite often. This is to check whether the job is good or bad, and to see what could be changed to make things even more successful.