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All the sections in the business reporting process – the people and the process
reports, need to be strong and closely connected to generate high quality business
and helps them to engage with internal and external stakeholders, including:
business.
If the reports to the business problems are not transmitted successfully to
subject and a sound ability to put ideas and thoughts in writing. The audience
for business reports comprises of upper level managers, and the need of
The word report can be used in different senses. It can be any presentation of
managerial performance.
A business report is standard form of business communication combining
There should standard format of business reports, hence, the process and
From the above definition, it can be said that, business report is a systematic
organizational goals.
Importance of Business Report:
efficiently.
Importance of Business Report:
person who prepares a report on a particular subject, convey this information in the form of a
report.
7. Helpful in decision making: A report provide systematic, reliable and useful information
after investigation and research, on the basis of which, it becomes possible for the
research projects may reveal unknown information, which provides new insight to the users.
9. Trains the writer: A report trains the writer in an orderly procedure and logical
representation of ideas and information. It also helps to find the faults and strategy which
• Reports communicate information which has been complied as a result of research and analysis
of data and issues. Reports cover a wide range of topics, but usually focuses on transmitting
• Good reports are documents that are accurate, objective oriented, and complete. It should also be
well-written, clearly structured and expressed in a way that holds the reader’s attention and
meets their expectations. The true value of the research may accessed through a report since the
written report may be the only tangible product of hundreds of hours of work.
• Often reports are structured in a way that reflects the process of finding information and the
writing up of the findings i.e. summery of the contents, introduction or background, methods
results, discussion, conclusion and recommendations. The recommendations are useful for
decision making. The scope and style of reports varies widely. It depends upon three key factors:
the report’s intended audience, it’s purpose, and the type of information to be communicated.
Scope of Business Report:
• For e.g. technical reports communicates technical information so the degree of technicality in
the report will depend on the reader’s familiarity and understanding the technical concepts.
• The nature and objectives of business reports significantly influences the scope of the report.
• Business reports are broadly used in formulating and upgrading organizational policies and
procedures.
• Business reporting provides opportunity to look into available investment area for future
investment.
• It also helps in developing the idea and concept for a new product. As well as it helps the
• Reports speak about customer’s opinion and hence helps the companies to bring necessary
• The scope of business reporting is set in a practical learning task required to apply the
theories to the real world situations. For e.g. accounting and finance person may be
asked to analyze company’s financial data and write a report detailing their findings.
• Therefore there is need to adopt and enhance the skills of report writing as reports have
a wide scope and are required at each and every step of work.
Users of Business Report:
• Business reports are quite often projected for a wide variety of different users or audience like:
1. Primary Audience: People who make decisions on the basis of business report.
2. Secondary Audience: The people who are affected by the actions the primary audience would
3. Immediate audience: People responsible for examining the business report, weighing its
1. Report Consumers
1. Absurd Information: If the report is based on the absurd or untrue, illogical information, business report
2. Subjectivity or Partiality: If the report writer if subjective or partial to anything, then it will affect the
3. Complexity: complexity may be in language, phrases will make the report difficult to grasp fast
4. Ambiguity: Ambiguity or uncertainty in sentences will make the report doubtful and with lot of efforts.
8. If the report is not addressed properly, and not signed by the responsible authority, it does not carry any
value.
9. Incomplete reports will not give clear picture of the business and don’t help in decision-making.
10. Lengthy and tedious reports are boring, expensive and difficult to analyze.
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