The document provides an overview of financial analysis tools including financial statements, ratios, and common size statements. It discusses the three main financial statements - the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. It then explains how to analyze these statements using common size statements, which express each line item as a percentage of total assets or total sales. Finally, it introduces financial ratio analysis, explaining that ratios are useful for assessing a firm's financial strengths and weaknesses and serving as a basis for decision making. Ratios are computed by dividing one number by another and can provide more informative insights than raw numbers alone.