Financial reports provide a window into the operations of a firm which can give all of its stakeholders the information that they need  5  to conduct transactions with confidence that they are not being taken advantage of in any way.
Some are large, complex highly integrated global financial institutions with activities spanning a range of sectors. Others may have a global customer base but are simpler commercial banking operations. Yet a third category is entities that are large at a domestic or regional level but nonetheless globally interconnected through wholesale funding markets.