Report: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Report

  • a written or verbal statement analyzing a particular issue, incident, or state of affairs, usually with some form of recommendations for future action

Wiktionary Definition for: Report

  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone.
  • Ex:''A '''report''' by the telecommunications ministry showed that the phone network has a severe capacity problem.''
  • (''ballistics'') The loud echo sound from a gun.
  • intransitive (''news'') To relate details of an event or incident.
  • Ex:''This was our correspondent '''reporting''' from Baghdad, Iraq.''
  • intransitive (''military'') To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
  • transitive : To notify of.
  • Ex:''The nuclear plant '''reported''' the incident to the authorities.''
  • Ex:''Riots have been '''reported''' from a remote province of the country.''
  • #To be accountable.
  • Ex:''The financial director '''reports''' to the CEO''

Additional Resources

Create A Simple Report
You can create a variety of different reports in Access, ranging from the simple to the complex. Certain principles apply, regardless of the report type. The record source provides the data for your report, in the form of information pulled from either a table or a query. After you choose...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Access
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2003 Environmental Performance Report
This report assesses the environmental performance and related impacts of California's electric generation facilities, and updates the status and trends that were initially reported in the 2001 Environmental Performance Report. In addition, as provided in section 25503b of the Public Resources Code, this report has been prepared as part of...
Tags: Performance management, California Energy Commission, performance
White papers 2003-08-01
Troubleshoot Pivottable Reports
This white paper explains how one can create a report, laying out a report, formatting and customizing a report, retrieving and refreshing data, summarizing and calculating. It also explains how one can check the memory use setting, simplifying the report, simplifying the file, Create the report in a separate file...
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Create A Grouped Or Summary Report
Information is often easier to understand when it is divided into groups. For example, a report that groups sales by region can highlight trends that otherwise might go unnoticed. In addition, placing totals at the end of each group in your report can replace a lot of manual interaction with...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., sales
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About Pivotchart Reports
A PivotChart report provides a graphical representation of the data in a PivotTable report. You can change the layout and data displayed in a PivotChart report just as you can in a PivotTable report. This white paper explains about Pivot Chart terminology, how a Pivot chart report represents data, differences...
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The Themis Report : Online Games
The Themis Report is an analyst's report with a difference. It's a report created by people who have been in the trenches of online games virtually since the inception of the field, who are passionate about online gaming, but whom harsh experience has taught to be skeptical about extravagant claims....
Tags: Games, online game, game
White papers 2003-03-04
Report Basics
A report is an effective way to present your information in read-only format, such as a printed document. You can print other Access objects, such as forms and datasheets, but reports give you more control over how information is displayed, and greater flexibility when you present summary information. For example,...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., printing
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2003 Integrated Energy Policy Report
This energy report establishes a real-time, dynamic process for continuing dialogue on California's energy issues. The recommendations in this report represent an aggressive, wide ranging agenda for decision makers, businesses, and individuals. The Energy Commission believes that this report, along with its subsidiary volumes, lays the proper foundation for future...
Tags: California Energy Commission
White papers 2003-12-01
What is a Credit Report
This article focuses different type of credit reports that are maintained in business finances. A consumer credit report is a document that contains a factual record of an individual's credit payment history. Credit grantors are permitted by law to review your credit report to objectively determine whether to grant...
Tags: consumer credit, payment
White papers 2002-01-01
Natural Gas Market Assessment
This report is intended to assess the natural gas market trends, price and supply availability and infrastructure issues over the next decade (2003-2013). This report is in support of the Electricity and Natural Gas Report under the Integrated Energy Policy Report IEPR. The IEPR is being prepared under the direction...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, California Energy Commission, natural gas, advertisement
White papers 2003-08-01
Use A Query As A Recordsource For A Form Or Report
You can use a query to supply data to a form or report. You can do this by using a wizard, and you can also do so manually by setting the Record Source property of the form or report. This paper shows you how to use a query as the...
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When to get a credit report
This article says that before you apply for a credit card or loan, you should review a copy of your credit report from each of the three major bureaus to avoid any surprises. A copy of your credit report from each bureau generally costs $9. Some states, including California and...
Tags: bureau, credit card, financial
White papers 2003-09-08
Managing Your Credit
Your credit report is an electronic record of your credit activities. These activities range from borrowing to buy a car or a home to applying for a loan or credit card. More importantly, a credit report is a record of how you use credit and how much of it you...
Tags: electronic record, payment, credit card, monitor
White papers 2003-09-08
World Retail Banking Report 2005
The World Retail Banking Report provides the latest pricing benchmarks by country for retail banking products and services. The report features the country dashboards providing macro-economic data and local banking trends analysis. The report further throws lights on how the world's retail banks will extract more value from existing clients...
Tags: Capgemini, dashboard, banking, pricing strategy, bank, analysis, network
White papers 2005-03-02
Institutional Demand for Hedge Funds: New Opportunities and New Standards
The objective in this report is to be both descriptive of and prescriptive to the hedge fund industry. The report describes the current state of institutional demand for hedge funds. Chapter 2 of the report anticipates the impact of increasing demand on hedge funds. Finally, the report provides summarized information...
Tags: Investment, Financial services, Bank of New York Co., hedge fund
White papers 2004-09-01
The Growing Appetite for Catastrophe Risk: The Catastrophe Bond Market at Year-End 2004
This report focuses exclusively on natural catastrophe bonds and therefore does not discuss other insurance securitization transactions, such as instruments that secure life mortality risks, the risk of trade credit insurance policies or weather derivatives. Finally, while the report believes that all industry participants will find this report valuable, the...
Tags: Guy Carpenter & Co., catastrophe, credit insurance, bond, industry
White papers 2005-03-01
Report on the OECD Conference Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST): Futures, Strategies and Best Practice
The report draws conclusions about current transport trends, about progress towards EST and about what the next steps should be. The report briefly sets the context of the conference and describes the Synthesis Report, a document prepared to provide conference participants with a common basis of relevant information. It also...
Tags: conference, best practice, strategy
White papers 2002-02-14
Benchmarking Report: 288 Organizations Share Best Practices In Change Management
The new 2003 Best Practices in Change Management report presents comprehensive findings from 288 companies on their experiences and lessons learned in change management. This report makes it easy to learn change management best practices and uncovers the mistakes to avoid when creating executive sponsorship. The key report findings include...
Tags: Leadership, change management, middle management, best practice, benchmarking, team
White papers 2003-01-01
How to fix credit card errors
The Fair Credit Reporting Act is again your friend when it comes to fixing errors in your credit report. Errors in your credit report include mistakes but they also include omissions. It's possible that actions you've taken to pay off a debt or clear up a delinquency, for example, are...
Tags: Sales channel, omission, credit card, bankruptcy
White papers 2003-09-08
Analyzing Company Reports: Reading Annual & Quarterly Reports
A company is required by law to provide its shareholders with information about its operations. An annual report satisfies this obligation. An annual report is a brief profile on the health of a company. Annual report is comprised of the elements like - a letter from the chairman on the...
Tags: Financial accounting, Ameritrade Inc., shareholder, annual reports, health care, financial
White papers 1999-01-01
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