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Informational Report: An Informational Report Is One That Contains Details

The document discusses two types of reports: informational reports and analytical reports. Informational reports provide data, facts, and information without analysis or recommendations, while analytical reports provide both information and analysis along with recommendations. The key difference between the two is that analytical reports include analysis and recommendations to help with decision-making, while informational reports simply present information.

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Informational Report: An Informational Report Is One That Contains Details

The document discusses two types of reports: informational reports and analytical reports. Informational reports provide data, facts, and information without analysis or recommendations, while analytical reports provide both information and analysis along with recommendations. The key difference between the two is that analytical reports include analysis and recommendations to help with decision-making, while informational reports simply present information.

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1) Informational reports provide data, facts, feedback, and other types of information

without analysis or recommendations

Analytical reports offer both information and analysis, but they also include recommendations.
Offering recommendations is the biggest difference between informational and analytical
reporting.

Informational report: An informational report is one that contains details


information without analysis or recommendation.

 Objective: to carry information from one area of business to another.


 Readers/users: Officers, board of directors and stockholders of the
company usually read such a report.
 Example: Annual reports, progress reports, statement of policies and
procedures.
 Length: relatively short.
 Decision making: it is less helpful in making instant decision because it
don’t have analysis.

Analytical report: Analytical report is one that presents, analyzes, interprets


information and makes recommendations on complex and critical problems.

 Objective: to solve problems.


 Readers/users: Top-level management
 Example: suggestion reports, recommendations reports, justification
reports.
 Length: the maximum length.
 Decision making: it is useful in making instant decision because its
interprets information and makes recommendations.

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