Financial Reporting



Financial Reporting

Introduction

This proposal deald swith the overview of the topics that will be covered in detail later in my final thesis. Over here, we will be analyzing the financial reporting concerns and how it affects the overall performance of the company and the trust and information base of its stakeholders. In this report we will be discussing the importance of financial reporting along with the trust factor that is involved in the reporting in regards with stakeholders. Apart from this we will also be discussing the type of stakeholders they are who have their stake in the financial reporting of the company and why they have those stakes.

Review of Literature

Importance of Financial Information

Many times it has been well said that: The financial accounting information in the management of a company, properly analyzed and interpreted is the basis of every good decision, means that the financial executive must make decisions and therefore needs sufficient and timely information. By joining the financial statements standards or accounting principles, these states serve basis for making judgments on firm and for a sufficient analysis and interpretation of accounting and financial information that you corresponding result.

A company has historical financial information and future events that have interrelated elements. To find these relations, it is necessary to perform an auscultation of the information, which is to apply a range of techniques and procedures of mathematical type. Following the analysis we apply our personal opinion and practical experience in order to make a diagnosis about the financial position, results and projections of the company, similar to that done by a physician to interpret the clinical analysis of his patient. All this is in order to know if the financial structure is balanced, if the funds involved are the convenient, if capital investment projects have been properly applied, if the third-party claims related to stockholders' equity in Finally, a number of arguments that are useful to regulate the roads should continue to focus.

By analyzing and interpreting the analyst studies and discover what they say or try to say the financial statements for the benefit of those interested in them. The financial analysis is often intended drawing conclusions about the future development of an activity, based on their past behavior. The most common is the credit risk analysis based inter alia on the examination of the financial statements of the requesting client, for one or more corresponding periods. This seems normal: It is assumed that a certain economic-financial function to behave a certain way in the past, will continue behaving the same way in the future and yet this is one of the most discerning and demanding analytical ability of the analyst, because the past is not always a good indicator of the future and it is precisely in those cases where the financial analyst's contribution becomes more valuable.

Objectives of Financial Reporting

The objectives of the analysis and interpretation of financial information are to provide accounting and financial figures objectively structured in a clear, smart, simple, sufficient, timely and accurate ...