You are the CFO of a publicly- traded company in a very competitive industry. You are preparing annual report and SEC fillings and you carefully considering how much information to provide. You fear that your competitors could gain some advantage if you present too much detail but you know that investors want more details so they can evaluate the business and management performance. How do you handle these conflicting elements? Please give a response that never was posted here. Thank you
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