Financial reporting aims to track, analyze and report your business income. This helps you and any investors make informed decisions about how to manage the business.
These reports examine resource usage and cash flow to assess the financial health of the business.
Investors want to know how cash is being reinvested in the business, and how efficiently capital is being used. Financial reporting helps investors decide whether your business is a good place for their cash.
Where is your business’s money coming from and where is it going? Is the business making a profit or a loss? The answers to these show how well your business is performing, and whether it can cover its debts and continue to grow.
By monitoring these, and any changes to them, you can work out what to expect in the future, and the growth potential for the business.
Financial reports adhere to a group of taxation, accounting and legal requirements, called the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This is so a business’s finances can be understood all over the world – a necessity with the increase of global companies and international shareholders. The US is currently an exception to this as companies there are required to use the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).