Reading an Annual Report
An annual report shows a company's money, its plans and its worries.
The idea
An annual report is a long document a company publishes once a year for the people who own it. It shows how much money came in from sales, how much went out on costs, what is left over, and what the bosses say about the year ahead. Because the company writes it, the cheerful parts are opinion, but the numbers and the risk section have to be there. Reading one means you are learning about a business instead of guessing about it. 📘
Words to know
- annual report
- A big report a company writes once a year about how it did.
- revenue
- All the money that came in from selling things.
- expenses
- The money a company spends to run itself.
- profit
- What is left over after you take expenses away from revenue.
- shareholder
- A person who owns a small piece of a company.
Try it — no account needed
Each part of an annual report answers a different question.
0 / 4 matched
In the full lesson
- 1Match the pairs
- 2Work out the number
- 3Make the call
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