The Quick Quiz

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

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


    
1. Key to producing an award-winning annual report is to buddy up to the guy who picks them. True or false?
2. The Securities and Exchange Commission promised to expedite companies’ filings if they would strive for a "plain English" approach to the annual report, among other items. True or false?
3. Quaker Oats’ chief executive is new to the job. New bosses usually start off telling the truth in at least their initial letter to shareholders. True or false?
4. Unless a company’s annual report scores well in your competition, it won’t be praised by you. True or false?
5. When a company with a new CEO does a Q&A with him, you can bet the store it’ll be laden with lobs—that is, with soft pitches. True or false?

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