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Please helps understand a company's financial statement and annual reports. Provide at least 400 words.

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This post helps with financial accounting and bookkeeping.The solution describes the annual report and tells what it is and what it is not. Concepts discussed include annual report, shareholders, firms, material changes and financial performance. The explanation is given in 432 words.

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The main idea of the annual report is to show shareholders and other external users of the financial report how the company utilized the funds the shareholders and other institutions effectively lent to the firm.

The annual report should be arranged in a way that shows shareholders and other lenders (including potential, future ones) how the firm utilized capital including outlining new material assets purchased and how well the firm utilized those assets. In addition, the firm should present data such as return on equity to show a direct measure of how well the firm used the equity provided by shareholders. The ...

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