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An annual report by any other name…
I sometimes refer to writing annual reports for clients, but you may know those reports by another name such as:
- trustee report
- annual trustee report
- shareholders’ report
- report for members
- membership report
- AGM reports (although these are often simpler and delivered orally)
- company report
- annual credit report
Are there any other name you use or know for annual reports from a company or similar entity?
Writing efficiently saves money
Using the fewest words possible to communicate the message simply is my writing ideal, and I have been known to edit many documents to be well under 50% of their original length. One example that comes to mind is a 75 A4 page text-only disclosure document I converted into 24 A5 pages with pictures!
So I found it very interesting to read a report from Ron Denholm about the costs of inefficient writing.
In summary, Ron shows than reducing document size (through more concise content) by 34% in a business setting can save businesses $153 per document in reading time for a team of 100 (that adds up to $3,060 saved over 20 documents – scary amount!)
Next time you write a report, will you edit out the wasted words to be more efficient?
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