annual report

American  

noun

1. a document reporting to stockholders on management and operations and containing fiscal information, published yearly by a publicly held corporation as required by federal law.

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annual report British  

noun

1. a report presented by the directors of a company to its shareholders each year, containing the profit-and-loss account, the balance sheet, and details of the past year's activity

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annual report

Apple has around 166,000 employees around the world, according to its most recent annual report.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

And almost 40% of all local U.S. newspapers have vanished, according to an annual report on the state of local news put out by Northwestern University’s Medill journalism school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Microsoft in its latest annual report said that “Azure and other cloud services revenue increased 41%” during the fiscal year ended June 30.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Responding to the bank's annual report, First Minister John Swinney said it must be able to take risks to deliver "greater economic returns".

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

According to the latest annual report on violence, Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time is not the world’s most violent region.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker