The usefulness and Limitations of the corporate annual report, illustrating your answer by reference to one company's most recent 'Annual Report' and 'Annual Review' Documents.

Corporate Annual reports are produced by companies every year to be filed at companies House by Law and they are sent to its shareholders in order to inform them on their success throughout the year of trading. All Corporate annual reports have similar structures and they consist of both non-statutory items which are the informational parts of the report and the statutory items which give some insight into the financial matters of the company. The …

…Annual Report can be seen as of importance. Reference List: Haslam, C., Neale, A, & Johal, S (2000) Economics in a Business context 3rd ed. London Thompson Learning J. R Dyson (2004) Accounting for non-Accounting students 6th Ed.Prentice Hall pg 208-245 http://www.bham.ac.uk/EAA/eaa98/abstract/gov/hassink.html Annual reports Adjust to times, Available: http://bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2002/10/07/focus1.html http://www3.bus.osaka-cu.ac.jp/apira98/archives/htmls/64.htm