When we want to see how our company is growing (or shrinking), we might compare how we did in a variety of areas (like gross revenue or sales or market share, etc.) to how we did in those same areas last year or five years ago or ten years ago. When we compare where we are now to where we were then, that's base-year analysis. The year we use for comparison is considered the base year.
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