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For this peer review discussion, your initial post will be an "annotated bibliography" relating to your Business Prospectus (Assignment 3). Review that assignment description and then write a discussion post in which you list at least 5 sources you plan to use in your report. Each source should be presented in APA style. Below each source insert an annotation in which you explain the following (please include headings for each item): 1. The overall main idea of the source. 2. How/why the source will be useful for your prospectus. Planning Informational Reports 2 Learning Objective List the options for organizing informational reports, and identify the key parts of a business plan. Informational reports provide the information that employees, managers, and others need to make decisions and take action. These can be grouped into four general categories: * REPORTS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL OPERATIONS. Just as doctors rely on medical reports to see how well the various systems in a patient's body are functioning, business managers rely on a wide range of reports to see how well the various systems in their companies are functioning. Plans establish expectations and guidelines to direct future action (see "Creating Successful Business Plans" on page 403). Operating reports provide feedback on a wide variety of organizational functions, including sales, inventories, expenses, shipments, and other aspects of company operations. Personal activity reports provide information regarding an individual's experiences during sales calls, industry conferences, market research trips, and other activities. Informational reports are used to monitor and control operations, to implement policies and procedures, to demonstrate compliance, and to document progress. * REPORTS TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. Policy reports range from brief descriptions of business procedures to manuals that run dozens or hundreds of pages. Position papers, sometimes called white papers or backgrounders, outline an organization's official position on issues that affect the company's success. - REPORTS TO DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE. Even the smallest businesses are required to show that they are in complianee wurryovemnemtrequlations of unte surt ul dinuther. Quarterly arlu annual tax reports such as those filed by John Deere are compliance reports as well. * REPORTS TO DOCUMENT PROGRESS. Progress reports range from simple updates to comprehensive reports that include such elements as measured progress toward goals, comparisons of budgeted versus actual expenses, and lists of ongoing concerns and risks. Progress reports range from simple, informal updates to comprehensive status reports. * Organizational Strategies for Informational Reports * A topical organization is built around the content itself, using such arrangements as comparison, importance, sequence, spatial orientation, chronology, geography, or category. * Most informational reports use a topical organization, arranging the material by topic in one of the following ways: - COMPARISON. Showing similarities and differences (or advantages and disadvantages) between two or more entities * IMPORTANCE. Building up from the least important item to the most important (or from most important to the least, if you don't think your audience will read the entire report) * SEQUENCE. Organizing the steps or stages in a process or procedure * SPATIAL ORIENTATION. Organizing parts of a physical space by their relative locations " CHRONOLOGY. Organizing a chain of events in order from oldest to newest or vice versa GEOGRAPHY. Organizing by region, city, state, country, or other geographic unit * CATEGORY. Grouping by topical category, such as sales, profit, cost, or investment * Whichever pattern you choose, use it consistently so that readers can easily follow your discussion from start to finish. Of course, certain reports (such as compliance or monitor-and-control reports) must follow a prescribodrivew