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How to Build Shareholder Trust with Reliable Financial Reports

Planful

In an ideal world, financial reports should build shareholder trust by offering accurate data about the performance of the company. In reality, a company’s financial report can be more flimsy—involving estimates and judgment from leadership that’s far from the truth. at its peak to $0.26

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Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)!

Musings on Markets

Until the early 1900s, reporting by public companies was meager, varied widely across firms, and depended largely on the whims of managers, with smaller, closely held firms among the most secretive.

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