Eng 209/WI
Writing Informational and Analytical Reports
1.0 Applying the Writing Process to Prepare Business Reports
Reports play a significant role in the careers of all business professionals. Reports fall into three basic categories: Informational reports offer data, facts, feedback, and other types of information, without analysis or recommendations. Analytical reports offer both information and analysis, and they can also include recommendations. Proposals (in our next module) offer structured persuasion for internal or external audiences. The nature of these reports varies widely, from one-page trip reports that follow a standard format to detailed business plans and proposals that can run hundreds of pages. No matter what the
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Consider several points for reports and proposals. First, for many reports and proposals, audiences have specific media requirements, and you might not have a choice. For instance, executives in many corporations now expect to review reports via their in-house intranets, sometimes in conjunction with an executive dashboard, a customized online presentation of key operating variables such as revenue, profits, quality, customer satisfaction, and project progress. Second, consider how your audience wants to provide feedback on your report or proposal. Do they prefer to write comments on a printed document or to use the commenting and markup features in a word processor? Third, will people need to search through your document frequently or update it in the future? Delivering a report as a word processor file makes both tasks far easier. Fourth, bear in mind that your choice of media also sends a message. For instance, a routine sales report dressed up in expensive multimedia will look like a waste of valuable company resources.
1.4 Organizing Your Information
The direct approach is by far the most popular and convenient for business reports; it saves time, makes the rest of the report easier to follow, and produces a more forceful report. When you
We learned how to read and understand financial reports allowing us to determine what areas interact and how to balance the effects of decisions. We were able to learn hot to pick out the important variables in business reports to examine our results in comparison to other teams.”
The detailed report provides visit level data to evaluate specific trends and collaborate with your assigned Financial Analyst to identify areas for improvement. A comment column is provided to comment why specific departments are
One approach is the Kaizen approach which essentially means: to continually make improvements. This would work with our teams, because we would be continually challenging the standards that are already in place. Our teams would be working on improvements on every report to make it the best that can be. The drawback to this approach is changing the report before adequate feedback can be given on the changes. Time-based management would aim to reduce waste referring to the waste of time; with time-based management that would require a multi-skilled and flexible work force. This would work well with my teams, because we are a multi skilled and flexible team already. The drawback with this approach is that the margin of error to bigger. Based on the definition of time-based management in order to reduce waste in reference to time, when people are hurrying or in a rush and multi-tasking, it is easier to make more mistakes. Finally, total quality management (TCM) is a way to make sure that the quality of the report is right the first time. This is a good approach that could be used by our team; a positive of this approach is that everything would be correct the first time the report is run. The drawback to this approach is that it does not challenge the status quo, it doesn’t require that our teams to continually get better and search for new ways to enhance our delivery. Any of these approaches would work to cut down on either one item or
KeepCup Company is an Australia private company, who are working in exporting reusable cups. KeepCup head office, which in Melbourne is recently exploring for the feasibility of introducing their product overseas to German. This business report provides a business analysis and consideration about the external environment in German.
In Nick Anderson’s and Peyton M. Craighill’s Washington Post article, “College students remain deeply divided over what consent actually means”, posted on June 14, 2015, Nick and Peyton addresses the growing confusion of consent amongst college students. Throughout the article, Anderson and Craighill uses a vast amount of examples and statistics to inform the reader of the ongoing problem that many collegiate students face, regarding sexual consent. Anderson and Craighill’s exigence derives from a recent survey that exposes the rising confusion of “consent” amongst college students, as well as the increasing cases of sexual assault surrounding college
iBizSim: International Business Simulations: Management Report Industry 3 Company 2: Preset name (please change): Industry 3 Company 2
Being an explorer by nature, I tend to actively seek opportunities, experiences and learnings that aid me in unravelling the real me. Seeking entry into Master of Art therapy, I feel is a pivotal step in my journey of self-exploration and professional endeavour. This essay presents an exploratory account of the personal reflections, awareness, insights and academic understanding, I have gained whilst participating in the six-week experiential training group as a trainee art therapist. Through the chronological narration of weekly content, it will aim to demonstrate my ability to reflect on the group process and elaborate on how my art making has informed and influenced me in understanding the practice of art therapy.
8. Modernize financial reporting. Steps here include developing best practices for Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), implementing plain English financial reporting and providing website access to key performance measures.
Corporate annual reports are important research tools that enable investors to keep current on the
In response to an increase in overt and clandestine acts by terrorist groups, transnational ideological movements and other nations, governments around the world have moved more resources into gathering intelligence to protect its people and national interests. As a result, the contribution of Intelligence Analysts in matters of national security have increased considerably in recent years. To be effective an Intelligence Analyst is required to be adept at evaluating different types of intelligence data, liaising with other departments and organisations effectively and remaining objective in scrutinising collected information. Intelligence comes in many formats, and a good understanding of these various formats and the process by which they
This exploratory paper draws upon generally on the issues and developments of worldwide budgetary emergency. The report focuses on the numerous disappointments and those disappointments got from a blend of hypothesis and establishments rehearse. Since the Great Depression we are in the thick of the hardest monetary emergency under the radical budgetary deregulation transform that began in the late 1970's. The fundamental variables, adding to the budgetary emergency are the most shaky and suspicions for the future with no verifiable data, additionally by utilizing the expository movement which did not work out, yet as the nations are growing new manifestations of thoughts and speculations are rising towards fruitful serving to cut down
The first analytic process is: create a solid information base; the author states “combine expertise and professional research with personal experiences to better understand the problem’s nature and its impact on people’s lives” (Gastil 185). I do agree with the Gastil statement, because the in the meeting, Dr. Maldonado talked about his personal experience so that it was related; Dr. Brewer who I have been in a conference with a couple of times before this meeting also did the same. For example, the vice president recently joined the company this year; he talked about his personal experience and how he convinced about his moving here for his new position. At the end of his personal story and he said that “even though it was harder than I
This report has been written to analyse the financial statements of the theme park Dream world and discuss the observations. In order to achieve this, the financials for the year 2016 has been compared with the financials of previous years to ascertain the changes in the operational activities. Dreamworld is the biggest theme park in Australia and is a part of Argent Leisure group. The financial statements procured are of Argent Leisure group and Dream world is only a segment of it. It has been observed that the company had an overall profit of 9% during the year 2016 with an Earnings Per Share of 9.37(cents). Although there was a negligible decline in profit of 0.38% as compared to last year despite the increase in revenue. Major
Client reports are usually generated by the members of the team, while there are times in which even the team leaders themselves also produce a report for the clients. Businesses submit reports about updates on their products and services to clients as these influence their clients’ patronage to the products or services that they offer.
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