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Why do companies include notes along with the financial statements?

a. Without them no one would be able to use the numbers reported

b. So that the reader knows what type of inventory valuation method is being used

c. It is required by the IRS

d. To give the reader further insight into particular line items on a financial statement

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Question ajoutée par Michael Lagunday , Accounts Assistant , Invest Group Overseas LLC
Date de publication: 2015/08/11
Abhay Singh Kanwar
par Abhay Singh Kanwar , Article Assistant , Kamlesh Rathod and Associates

To give the reader further insight into particular line items on a financial statement

Muhammad Kashif Safdar
par Muhammad Kashif Safdar , Group Accounts Manager , Eden Global Investments Ltd.

Notes to financial Statements refer  to additional information provided in a company’s financial statements

D- To give reader further insight into particular line items on financial statement.

Awais butt Butt Brothers
par Awais butt Butt Brothers , Accountant , Newage Cables (Pvt) Ltd

Company give the notes to provided the additional information in financial statment.

hasan abbas mir
par hasan abbas mir , Accountant Payable , Gulf Marketing Group

TO MAKE ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS UNDERSTAND WHAT LIES IN AND EDUCATE THEM REGARDING FINACIAL TERMINOLOGY.

Naji Mohamed
par Naji Mohamed , Audit Manager , Apex chartered Accountants

to disclose all the related informations that will make the FS understandable to the defferent users.

Malik Saleem Iqbal
par Malik Saleem Iqbal , Assistant Finance Manager , Ali Zaid Al-Quraishi & Brothers Co LTD

Answer is:-

D

To give further detail of particulate line of FS

Anser Mehmood
par Anser Mehmood , Senior Accountant , FALCOR ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING SERVICES LLC

Notes to Financial Statements are important to include because these notes further explain the numbers given in Financial Statements. Normally added to the end of Financial Statements.

It explains the Accounting procedures of the organization as well as includes the clarification regarding numbers shown in financial statements. So Investors & other stakeholders take decisions after analyzing the statements based on these notes.

Financial Accounting Standards Board consider these notes an important part of Financial Statements.

John Alfred Adrados CPA
par John Alfred Adrados CPA , Senior Accountant , Excel Trading W.L.L (Excel International Group) – Doha, Qatar

Apart from being a requirement, the purpose is to substantiate all other relevant information, schedules and computations that are not presented in the face of the financial statements.