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Purposes or Objective of Business Reports

Posted By The Business Communication 6 Comments

Reports are the primary means of communication in organization. In large-scale organizations, there is no alternative to use reports. Reports also play an important role in small-scale organizations. Some points highlighting the purposes or objectives or important of business report are presented below-

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  • Transmitting Information:
  • Interpretation and Explanation of event:
  • Making decisions:
  • Communication with external stakeholders:
  • Development of information base:
  • Developing labor-management relationship:
  • Controlling:
  • Recommending actions:

Transmitting Information:

Business report is very important for transmitting information from one person to another or form one level to another. Although a manager can personally collect required information in a small scale enterprise, it is not possible in the context of a large scale organization. In the latter case, the managers rely on reports for obtaining necessary information.

Interpretation and Explanation of event:

Report provides interpretation and explanation of information. As a result, readers can easily understand it.

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Making decisions:

A report is the basic management tool for making decisions. The job of a manager is nothing but making decisions. Reports supply necessary information to managers to solve problems.

Communication with external stakeholders:

In addition to internal use, reports also communicate information to the external stakeholders like shareholders, creditors, customers, suppliers, government officials and various regulatory agencies. In the absence of formal business report, such stakeholders would remain at dark about the organizations.

Development of information base:

Reports also contribute to the development of information based in organization. It develops an information base in two ways. Firstly, day to day information is recorded permanently for writing reports. Secondly, the written reports are preserved for future reference. In these ways, reports help in developing an h3 and sound information base.

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Developing labor-management relationship:

Reports also help to improve labor-management relationship particularly, in large organizations. In a large organization, there is little opportunity of direct communication between top-level management and employees. In this case, report is used as mechanism of keeping both sides informed about each other and improving their relationships.

Controlling:

Controlling is the final function of management. It ensures whether the actual performance meets the standard. In order to perform the managerial function of controlling, report serves as a yardstick. It supplies necessary information to impose controlling mechanism.

Recommending actions:

Reports not only supply information but also recommend natural actions or solutions to the problem. When someone is given the charge of investigating a complex problem and suggesting an appropriate remedy, the investigator usually submits a report to the concerned manager.

Above discussion makes it clear that reports are the commonly used vehicles that help mangers in planning, organizing, staffing and controlling. In a nutshell, report is indispensable for carrying out the management functions. Report is the nerve of an organization that circulates information.

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  1. Marina says

    October 17, 2018 at 4:43 pm

    It is easy to get informative and valuable business reports with project management solutions. They provide a lot of data that gives insights and help to make decisions. Here’s a list of free tools: https://www.actitime.com/productivity-tools/free-project-management-software

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    • The Business Communication says

      October 17, 2018 at 6:11 pm

      For business report as well as building customer relationships, you should use CRM software. Check this video to get best CRM software for your small business. I’m using HubSpot CRM, and it’s free.

      Reply
  2. Obiero David says

    July 2, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    Wonderful information

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  3. viraj says

    February 29, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    hello

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  4. Florence Muchavi says

    September 21, 2021 at 2:15 pm

    it is very informative and it teaches how to create business report in different ways

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  5. Andries (None) Kgwahla says

    November 1, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    Communication Strength in business.

    Reply

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