A report is a written statement that provides factual information about events, progress, or business activities. It presents results and interpretations of recorded data. Reports have several purposes, including representing factual information to management, providing reference materials from investigations or surveys, and making recommendations for future use. They also provide useful information to various stakeholders. Key features of reports are that they are written for a specific purpose and audience, and often include unbiased facts and possible recommendations. Essential elements of effective reports are accuracy, clarity, completeness, consistency, simplicity, reliability, appearance, and logical content. Reports are important for conveying information, decision-making, coordination, performance measurement, facilitating improvements, and organizational review and evaluation. Common types of reports include

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2. Meaning :
A Report is written form of systematic information relating to events, progress
of action or some business activity. It is a written statement of any event
,result,conditions and interpretation of record.
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3. Puropose of Report:
 It represnts the factual information to the management.
 It provides facts and result of investigation or survey for future reference.
 It makes recommendation which use in future
 It provides useful information to customer, creditors, shareholder and to
general public.
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4. Features of Report - Writing
 A report is a written statement of some information and an account of
some event.
 A report is written for some specific purpose
 A report is written for specific audience
 A report often includes recommendation.
 A report has a objective which is unbaised fact
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5. Essentials of report
 Accuracy
 Clarity
 Completeness
 Consistency
 Simplicity
 Realiability
 Appearance
 Logical content
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6. Importance of Report –writing
 Conveyor of Information
 Decision making
 Better coordination
 Tools to measure performance
 Helps in making desirable changes
 Helps in measuring effectiveness of the organisation
 Review and Evaluation of operations.
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7. Types of reports
• External Reports
• Internal Reports
• Informational Reports
• Routine Reports
• Staff Reports
• Technical Reports
• Director Report
• Auditor’s Report
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