Understandability refers to the quality of financial information which makes it understandable by people with reasonable background knowledge of business and economic activities.
Understandability requires the information presented in financial reports to be concise, complete and clear in presentation. The information should be presented so as to facilitate the user of the information.
However, understandability never prescribes any complex information to be omitted altogether due to its underlying difficulty in understanding. It just requires us to disclose the information systematically instead of presenting it haphazardly.