Informative Reports vs. Analytical Reports

Informative reports consist of delivering data and presenting it in a professional manner. Analytical reports analyze and summarize data. The difference between these reports are their function the Analytical report is less a reproduction of data rather it is a formed analysis about the data. The informative report only functions to report the data in text form and present it clearly and concisely with the need for actual long sheets of data tables. The analytical report is, therefore, more work than an informative report because not only must you review the long sheets of data, but you must extract an analytical point and conclusion from the series of numbers. Sometimes even require that your formulate projections based on the data.