Are Financial Accounting Statements Useful to Investors?

1. Are financial accounting statements useful to investors?
1.1 Introduction
Financial accounting statements are summaries of monetary data about an enterprise and are used in an attempt to help make informed decisions in the present and future.
Financial statements portray the effects of transactions and other events by grouping them into broad classes (or elements) according to their economic characteristics.
The three basic financial statements are the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement. There are many different entities that utilise financial statements.…