Quantitative analysis (quantitative analysis)
Method) is a method to analyze the quantitative characteristics, quantitative relations and quantitative changes of social phenomena. In enterprise management, quantitative analysis is based on the financial statements of enterprises as the main data source, and processed in a mathematical way to obtain the credit results of enterprises.
Quantitative analysis means that investment analysts use mathematical modules to analyze the quantifiable data of the company, evaluate the company's operation through analysis, and make investment judgments. The objects of quantitative analysis are mainly financial statements, such as fund balance statement, income statement and retained income statement. Its function is to reveal and describe the interaction and development trend of social phenomena.
Qualitative method is a kind of method or angle to study things from the inherent stipulation of things according to the contradictory changes of social phenomena or things' attributes and movements.
It describes and explains what it studies from the perspective of contradiction, based on accepted axioms, a set of deductive logic and a large number of historical facts. To conduct qualitative research, we should directly grasp the main aspects of the characteristics of things according to certain theories and experiences, and temporarily ignore the quantitative differences of homogeneity.