PDF-to-Excel conversion for better financial analysis
When a PLC releases its annual and interim accounts it’s driven by both duty and desire. On the one hand it has an obligation to publish audited figures for the world in general to see, and for its shareholders in particular. On the other, it understandably wishes to present its financial performance in as positive a light as possible. The result is that in addition to the obligatory tables showing balance sheets and earnings statements and so forth we’re given statistics showing, say, growth in market share by sector or by geography.
Investors and market watchers depend on all this data, but that doesn’t make them its