Question

Management of a company can enhance its business decision making ability and receive the most timely financial information by preparing financial statements.

Answer 1

Answer:

more frequently.

Explanation:

Both accounting and finance are extremely important for managers to make the best possible business decisions. The difference between accounting and finance is that accounting relies on past events, while finance has to anticipate to future events. One without the other is useless, since only knowing what happened before and not getting anything new out of that information doesn't help, and finance uses the accounting statements as their basic information.

In order for a manager to have the most reliable and current information, the financial statements must be done fairly frequently, every month or every two months at most. Legally the IRS only requires one set of financial statements per year, but that doesn't mean they can't be done more frequently. Before making a decision, you must know where your company is standing and the only way to know that is through financial statements.