Why do shareholders need financial statements?

 they need  the financial statements to inspect the invested money  from their side satisfied their emption and   they to  amend  anew invest ,or the company  going down they have to get their investments   

In a public limited organisation statement is very important because Share Holder Invest money to earn maximum profit from business organization.

Financial statement describe the real position of business for shareholders.

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for know, what about their investments, are make a profit or not 

To conduct the financial analysis for the benefit of the investor intended investor is usually an investor in securities tradable in the capital market, whether those securities were shares (called shareholders Stockholders), or if such securities is a tradable instruments (called Bondholders) will focus the fundamental analysis in this section on shareholders without bondholders and to the weakness of the bond market in emerging markets generally and in the GCC markets in particular. 2/1 importance of shareholders Investors are considered the most important group of beneficiary groups of the financial statements, so that the orientations of standard-setting bodies in developed countries such as the Council of the International Accounting Standards IASB, and the Council on American FASB accounting standards, put in the forefront of investor concerns when developing certain accounting standard. The importance Investors Service as a target accounting standards and financial statements for the following reasons: (1) that investors are not bound together by the facility contractual relationship on the basis of negotiation, where they buy securities prepared conditions Msbaka.2- that investors of shareholders called right holders rest Residual Beriers in facility, where the bear Output profit after repay holders of other rights and then in the case of loss had they Stoics this loss, and that the filter output at the end of life established is the right of shareholders, this product may increase or decrease of the capital paid by shareholders . 3. the most important investors mechanisms of shareholders to diversify risk by moving between the stock through the capital market and the distribution of capital available for investment between the two shares or more money, and based upon the lost investor credibility of accounting information leads to a lack of trust in the company and in accounting standards, auditing and then this situation may lead us to a market failure. As a result of the foregoing, the financial analysis for investors of shareholders is the most important pillar of the pillars of investing in equities at all.

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shareholders need financial statements to keep their information up-to-date (fresh) so that they can take the right decisions, plan for the future of the corporation and avoid the past mistakes

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Shareholders need financial statements to evaluate their equity investments and help them make informed decisions as to how to vote on corporate matters. ... This tool acts as a metric for profitability by showing the amount of profit companies generate with a shareholder's investment

Shareholders need the financial statements in order to evaluate their investment in the company and measure the performance of the management during the period

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1- to check profitability about periodic net income  if it is as expected or not

2- to check Performance of Company and financial position 

3-liquidity , Market share  

3-Business Risk Financial Risk operation and make Future Plans

a lot can be seen through Financial Reporting    

To evaluate the benefit of  their ownership in the business entity and analyze  the figures