This Year over Year (YOY) excel template is a great tool to analyze time-series data. This type of analysis is extremely useful when evaluating growth rate trends and patterns. This is also typically used by economists, who use YoY analysis to look at GDP growth and other important econometric statistics. Some of the common YoY Financial metrics that are evaluated on a YoY basis are the following:

• Revenue
• COGS
• SG&A
• EBITDA
• Net Income
• EPS