The letter of MD&A is known as management decision and
analysis and this is a portion of a public company annual report in
which management addresses the company annual performance that has
seen in the last 12 months.
Below are the main purpose of this MD&A letter.
- Required by FASB, it is required by FASB that management should
always discuss the positive and negative performance of the company
and this should be communicated to the investors as their money is
at stake and for this information it becomes necessary that a
letter should be prepared and send to the investors and this letter
is prepared as MS&A.
- Declare the results of operations, this letter covers the
results of the operations and informs the investors about the
profit or loss that has been earned/loss as per the result of the
operations.
- To declare critical accounting estimates, SEC encourages that
company should discloses every critical estimates that they have
prepared in preparing the accounts of the company.
- Liquidity and capital resources of the company are declared in
this letter. Any activity that will impact the liquidity or the
capital resource of the company is completely disclosed in this
letter.