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This 12 page paper looks at the value of the published annual accounts of the Dutch firm NKT for those making decision about the company. The writer looks at the content of the document and the way it may be interpreted in the context of the firm and the general accounting and investment environment. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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12 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TENTKdec.rtf
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valid reasons why a firms stakeholders will want to know what is going on in the firm and the way that it is performing. A firm has many ways of
communicating with shareholders, tools such as dividend signalling have been examined by many commentators, but the direct communication can be some of the most important and revealing information, one of
these is the annual report. The annual report is a financial document that also has a commentary and notes which has the aim of informing the shareholders of the performance
of the company in the preceding year and is often seen as a document that is of primary interest to stakeholders who are making decisions about the company. For
companies such as NKT, where there are complex operations over different members of the group there are a variety of issues that needs to be addressed in the way information
is brought together and correlated in a meaningful fashion so that the investors, who are the primary designated stakeholder group (Elliott and Elliott, 2003), can understand the performance as well
as the direction of the company by reading the results and the forward looking statements. However it may also be argued that although annual reports can be very useful documents
not only ion reporting results and potential strategies which may be relevant to an investor, potential investor, but also in the way that it indicates the attitude and the culture
of the company. However there are difficulties when reading an annual report, there are pro-formas given that companies have to comply with,
but this is not always an assurance of quality reporting. There have been a number of annual reports which have been discovered to be either misleading, incomplete or erroneous with
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