How to Write a Financial Report
How to Write a Financial Report

Author: Tage C. Tracy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1394263341

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Complete guide to understanding and writing financial reports with clear communication Accompanying the hugely successful How to Read a Financial Report, How to Write a Financial Report is your non-specialist and jargon-simplified guide to the art of writing a financial report and effectively communicating critical financial information and operating results to your target audience. This book also covers utilizing different KPIs and types of reports and statements to convey a cohesive quantitative story to everyone reading your report, even if they aren't experts in accounting and finance. This book pays special attention to the “big three” financial statements, the differences between internal and external financial information/reports, and confidentiality factors, disclosure levels, and risk elements when deciding which information to include. This book also discusses important elements in financial reports, including: Providing an expanded understanding of the big three financial statements and how these act as the base food which feeds the financial reporting beast. Producing financial reports that keep the audience engaged, focused, and educated. Learning how to speak the base language of accounting and finance. Diving deeper into financial stability and operating results by using ratios, trends, and variance analyzes to improve financial reporting. Offering examples of real financial reports for hands on reference and use in the real world. With everything readers need to write, analyze, and communicate financial accounting reports, How to Write a Financial Report earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of investors, lenders, business leaders, analysts, and managers seeking to improve their writing and comprehension skills, along with investors seeking to better understand where financial information comes from and how it is presented.

Non-financial Disclosure and Integrated Reporting
Non-financial Disclosure and Integrated Reporting

Author: Lino Cinquini

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-18

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 3030903559

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The increasingly crucial role of companies’ non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting. Through several expert contributions, conducted both with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book provides an up-to-date portrait of the debate by exploring corporate NFD either in its mandated contents or voluntary information. Contributing authors provide studies that encompass the different lines of NFD, namely non-financial risk reporting, sustainability reporting, and intellectual capital reporting, as well as the integration of financial and non-financial information through IR, the assurance of the NFD and IR through auditing activities, and the role of management and CFOs in NFD and IR.

Fraud in Financial Statements
Fraud in Financial Statements

Author: Julie E. Margret

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 131780435X

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As the monetary cost of fraud escalates globally, and the ensuing confidence in financial markets deteriorates, the international demand for quality in financial statements intensifies. But what constitutes quality in financial statements? This book examines financial statement fraud, a topical and increasingly challenging area for financial accounting, business, and the law. Evidence shows that accounting anomalies in an organization’s financial statements diminish the quality and serviceability of financial information. However, an anomaly does not necessarily signal fraud. Financial statement fraud is intended to mislead shareholders and other stakeholders. In this book, elements that underpin diversity of accounting anomalies likely found in fraudulent financial accounting statements are revealed. Multiple research methods are used in the analysis of selected international fraud cases, each illustrating examples of financial statement fraud, including: revenue recognition, overstatement and/or misappropriation of assets, understatement of expenses and liabilities, disclosure fraud, bribery and corruption. Additionally, the phoenix phenomenon with regard to fraud in financial accounting is investigated. Drawing on documented observations of commercial and legal cases globally this study highlights the necessity for continued development of financial audit practices and other audit services.