Optimizing Internal Financial Reporting

Abstract

Corporate reporting undoubtedly plays a major part in supporting decision-making by company management. In addition to contents of the reports, the way the reports are distributed and pre-sented are also of great importance. Based on the results of a survey done with the 50 CFOs of mid-sized are Swiss companies, this paper will identify five steps for optimizing the presentation of information in such reports. This not only involves increasing the effectiveness of the content, but also increasing of the reporting processes.