Description of the Problem
For the past two years, south Side Branch has recorded higher than normal
inventory losses. Employees reported that many items shown to be in stock are
not and other items were reordered when there was no need. The costs of these
inventory mistakes have increased steadily for the past eight quarter.
Notice how the first sentence of the section "Description of the Problem" provides
the context of the report (inventory loss, South Side Branch). If each section of a
long or short report contains a contextual reference, a reader will be able to skim