What is
Report ???
According to
ardictionary.com there are several meanings, such as :
- An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation.
- To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill with amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
- To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.
According to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report :
"A report is a textual work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form."
According to binusmaya.binus.ac.id from its slide about report :
" A report is a very formal document that is written for a variety of purposes in the sciences, social sciences, engineering and business disciplines."

A graph, table, or statistic may be included in arranging a report to emphasize something in order to persuade the reader of the report. Sometimes, a report with graphs and statistic are difficult to be understood because of the complexity of the data. In this case, an oral presentation is needed in order to make the report clearly understood by the audience(s). A good reports always end with a presentation (oral presentation).

Report are used in almost all work and education field nowadays. It aims is to display the result of an experiment or investigation. So reports is important because it provides information of the activities in a company.