Accountants focus on creating financial statements, whereas finance professionals use these statements to evaluate a firm and answer questions about its performance Indicate which financial statement you would refer to when answering the questions in the following tables Income Statement Statement of Stockholders' Equity How profitable has the firm been? How much of the firm's earnings are left as balance after the firm pays out dividends to its shareholders? The annual report is very important for Investors, because the information contained in the annual report: O helps investors forecast expected earnings and dividends. shows the prices at which each investor purchased the company's stocks and bonds