Which ONE of the following techniques is NOT a technique to be used in performing financial analysis on historical financial information?

$($a$)$ Failure prediction

$($b$)$ Trend analysis

$($c$)$ Ratio analysis

$($d$)$ SWOT analysis

Select one:

a$.$

SWOT analysis

b$.$

Trend analysis

c$.$

Failure prediction

d$.$

Ratio analysis