Reporting · 8 slides
An annual report presentation tells shareholders, a board or employees how the year went in a few minutes: the result, the key figures, where growth came from, what earnings became in cash, what was delivered and what comes next. This template has eight slides. It leads with the summary, puts every figure next to the year before and ends on the resolutions of the meeting.
For CFOs, investor relations heads and managing directors who present the annual results at a general meeting, to a board or to the whole company, next to the printed report.
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8 slides
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Shareholders look for three numbers first. With revenue, margin and free cash flow in the title, the room knows the year before the first slide starts.
Answer first. Many in the room read only this slide, so it holds the result, what drove it, the cash position and what you propose.
The six numbers every annual report is read for, each next to the year before, so the direction is clear at a glance.
Explains the growth instead of only reporting it. A stacked chart over three years shows which segment moved and by how much.
Earnings are an opinion, cash is a fact. A bridge from EBITDA to free cash flow shows what taxes, interest, working capital and capex took, and it closes to the number.
Reports the priorities you set a year ago with one result each, so shareholders can hold promises against outcomes.
Guidance in ranges next to the actuals, so the next report can be measured against this one.
Ends on what the meeting decides, in the words of the agenda, so the vote can be taken line by line.
Brief
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Create an 8-slide annual report presentation for [our annual general meeting] on [14 May 2027]. Company: [Brightwell Packaging, recyclable packaging], reporting year [2026], figures in [EUR million]. Slide 1: title with revenue, EBITDA margin and free cash flow [412, 15.0% and 24.2]. Slide 2: a summary with net income [29.6, up from 22.8], the segment that led the growth and the dividend we propose [0.85 per share]. Slide 3: six key figures, each next to the year before [revenue 378 to 412, EBITDA 52.9 to 61.8, net income 22.8 to 29.6, free cash flow 17.5 to 24.2, net debt to EBITDA 1.9 to 1.3, employees 1,840 to 1,925]. Slide 4: a stacked chart of revenue by segment for three years [food 192, 201, 214; pharma 82, 98, 118; industrial 76, 79, 80]. Slide 5: a waterfall from EBITDA to free cash flow [61.8, taxes -8.9, interest -4.6, working capital -3.1, capex -21.0, result 24.2]. Slide 6: four priorities with one result each [pharma +20.4%, recycled material 41%, energy per tonne -12%, lost-time injuries 0.9]. Slide 7: a table of the 2027 outlook as ranges next to the 2026 actuals. Slide 8: the resolutions for the meeting. Use action titles. Check that the segments add up to the revenue total and that the cash flow bridge closes, and mark anything you had to assume instead of inventing figures.
A figure with no comparison is trivia. Show the prior year in brackets or in a second column, and the change in percent. Where a segment was restated, say so in a note under the slide.
A total that grew 9% does not show whether the whole company grew or one business did. Name the segment that carried the year and give its share of the growth.
Show how EBITDA became free cash flow. Cash pays the dividend and reduces debt, and a bridge that closes to the figure answers the question most shareholders ask first.
EBITDA, free cash flow and net debt mean slightly different things in different companies. Put the definition in a note under the slide and use it the same way in every report.
A priorities slide that returns to last year's goals earns more trust than a list of achievements. Give each priority one measurable result and, where there is one, the next target.
FAQ
The result, the key figures next to the year before, where growth came from, how earnings became cash, what was delivered against last year's priorities, the outlook and the resolutions the meeting votes on. Eight slides cover it, and the detail stays in the printed or PDF report.
Plan on about one and a half minutes per slide. Eight slides take twelve minutes and leave room for questions at a general meeting. A board that has read the report needs fewer slides, and the key-figures and cash flow slides deserve the most time.
Yes. Attach the report as a PDF or Word file and say who the audience is. The AI reads the text of the report and builds the summary slides from it. Check that every figure on a slide matches the report before it goes to shareholders.
Yes. Slaide has portrait page formats, and the document exports as a Word file with A4 pages, real headings, paragraphs, tables and images, or as a PDF.
ChatGPT or any other AI assistant can draft the slide wording and propose a structure. It does not know your accounts, so the figures have to come from your reporting, and every number needs a check against the audited statements. The AI builds editable slides from your brief and your figures. AI makes mistakes, so check every figure.
No. Brightwell Packaging and all its figures are fictional. The arithmetic is consistent: the segments add up to revenue in every year, the cash flow bridge closes at €24.2m and the dividend of €0.85 on 12.0m shares comes to €10.2m, 34% of net income. That makes it a model for your own report.
The AI writes the pages; you approve the plan and export Word or PDF.
Attach the report and start the deck with its summary.
Which chart fits which message: bars to compare, lines for trends, a waterfall for bridges. Includes when a pie works, when a table beats a chart, common traps.
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