The document is a report submitted by a group of students at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology on the characteristics of different types of reports. It discusses three main types of reports: exploratory reports, descriptive reports, and causal reports. For each type of report, it provides the definition and objectives, and lists the key characteristics. Exploratory reports investigate situations to understand complex issues. Descriptive reports use concepts and theories from exploratory reports to help managers with planning and decision making. Causal reports study cause-and-effect relationships to identify the implications of results. The conclusion states that the students learned about the different characteristics of reports and enjoyed completing the assignment.

1. Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT)
Assignment
On
Report and Characteristics of each types of report.
Subject: Managerial Communication and Report Writing
Subject Code: MGT 502
Semester: Fall: 2017-18
Prepared for:
Thawhidul Kabir
Assistant Professor of Management.
Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT)
Mirpur-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prepared By:
Group Members
Name ID No. Intake Signature
Md. Moazzem Hossain 17181201006 41
Md. Monirul Islam 17181201011 41
Md. Mizanur Rahman 17181201049 41
Md. Ehteshamul Hasan 17181201111 41
Date of Submission: 2nd
January 2018

2. Report
A report is a structured form of communication through which different stakeholders are inform
with their require information.
For example – a medical report is prepared by a diagnostic center what will be created according
to the require information for the ultimate result. Here the stakeholders are the final users of the
report. The final users are Doctors who suggest to do those tests, the patients who will prescribed
by doctors based on the test reports and the pharmacy shops who sell the medicines based on the
test reports.
Based on the objectives of a report it can be three (3) types –
1. Exploratory Report.
2. Descriptive Report.
3. Causal Report.
1. Exploratory Report:
Exploratory reports are investigative in nature it identifies or explores into different events,
situations & occasions to know the unknown fuzzy issues. The outcome of exploratory report
helps manages to understand a complex situation.
(a) Search or inquiry – (about a lost thing. starts with a small
clue.)
(b) Investigation – (to reach a final conclusion with help of full
information or detailed report to find a particular result)
Characteristics of Exploratory Report:
1. Importance of the report: Unless the issue has a place in the report to add particular
value, its study will be ineffective and worthless.
2. Practical Element: It needs to have practical value and element in the report. If it does
not have any practical value and element it will be a meaningless report.
3. Combinations of Theory: Practical importance of the report has no meaning unless it is in
accordance with theory. If a specific problem is in accordance with certain theoretical
aspects it will be easy for the researcher to assess its utility or move forward with his
study in the right direction.
4. Dependable and Useful Facts: In the absence of trustworthy and valuable facts, the study
of the problem will have no managerial significance.
a
b

3. 2. Descriptive Report:
Descriptive reports are triggered by exploratory reports. More elaborately exploratory report
create concepts, theories and propositions. Descriptive report uses these concepts, theories
and propositions to reach a temporary decision for assessing managers in their planning and
decision making.
Characteristics of Descriptive Report:
1. Identification: contains the identification of matter / a will be described.
2. Description: contains the explanation / description of the thing.
3. Language Features: Introducing group or general aspect. Using conditional logical
connection. Using simple present tense.
4. General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of report; which will be
discussed in general.
5. Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail part by part, customs
or deed for living creature and usage for materials.
6. Orientation: In this section is the introduction of the characters, the story takes place or
time.
3. Causal Report.
Causal report studies the cause and effect relationship between and among anticipated things,
identifies the effect of that relationship and checks the possibilities of general implications of
identified results.
Characteristics of Causal Report:
1. Causal report seeks to identify associations among variables.
2. Causal report attempts to determine the cause or consequences of differences that already
exist between individuals or among groups.
3. The basic causal report approach is to begin with a noted difference between two groups
and then to look for possible causes for, or consequences of, this difference.
4. There are three types of causal report (exploration of effects, exploration of causes,
exploration of consequences), which differentiate their purposes and structure.
5. As in between individuals or among group studies, relationships can be identified in
causal report study, but causation cannot be fully established.

4. Conclusion:
Here we did the assignment with help of our couse teacher and his highly skillfully lectures what
gave us inspiration to create the assignment. We also use internet to create the assignment. We
have learned new things as charactesitics of all types of report and its related things. It is fun to
learn new things and we enjoyed everything during the assignment.
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