The Quick Quiz

Test your knowledge of annual reports.
(Questions for March 1998)

Come back next month to see how savvy you are about
annual reports to shareholders of publicly held companies.


    
1. Since the Securities and Exchange Commission a decade ago mandated that companies would be required to improve disclosure in the Management’s Discussion & Analysis of Operations (MD&A), how many would you guess have heeded that admonition:   10   100   1,000?
2. Most companies tend to innovate in their annual reports. True or false?
3. After an annual report is named world’s best—that is, No. 1—for three years, thus can’t be considered for the list of world’s best...after that, most don’t try any longer. True or false?
4. Annual reports may be big in America, but Japan is hardly what you’d call a hotbed of annual report activity. True or false?
5. After a company attends Sid Cato’s annual report conference, it seldom sees the need for sending a staff member again. Not true?

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