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

In its most recent annual report, the company warned that data-center funding arrangements could lower its near-term cash flows and increase its exposure to customer credit risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Costs for building natural-gas plants and large-scale solar and wind projects have increased more than 10% since last year, according to Lazard’s annual report on electricity-generation costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Edison told its shareholders in its annual report that it believes it acted as a “reasonable” utility operator before the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The firm warned in its annual report it needed to secure fresh financing to stay afloat after taking a £55m hit from outages over the winter.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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