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Understandability

The articulation of financial terms in words whose meanings can be understood by a layperson.
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3 Relevance of Readability in Corporate Disclosures
A Study on Comparison of Readability Levels of Annual Reports of Banks on the Basis of Profitability
An analyst can easily measure the readability of any finance document.
Text analysis: a simple "big data" tool for local government
What are the differences among readability measures and text sources (e.
A comparison of readability in science-based texts: Implications for elementary teachers
Chapter 5 focuses on "Coherence and Discourse" properties of texts and their effect on readability, where, in addition to a further discussion of conceptual linking and background knowledge, the authors discuss the effect of frames and metaphors on readability.
Alan Bailin and Ann Grafstein. Readability: Text and Context
Popular readability indices such as the Fry Readability (Fry, 1977) and Flesch-Kincaid (Flesch, 1948) use factors such as the number of sentences in a passage and the syllable count of the words in the passage.
Varying readability of science-based text in elementary readers: challenges for teachers
Less complex words were substituted for these words in an attempt to improve readability scores.
An analysis of the readability of patient information materials for common urological conditions
This formula was chosen since it is easily accessible to users and widely used on both PC and Mac computers as a built-in readability tool for Microsoft Office Word software.
Readability levels of dental patient education brochures
As noted, four validated readability scoring methods were utilized to comprehensively evaluate each article.
Comparative readability of shoulder and elbow patient education materials within orthopaedic websites
The variation of readability identified in our study suggests that with contributions from health literacy specialists, public health agencies could further adapt the EVD information provided.
Readability of Ebola information on websites of public health agencies, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Europe
As shown in the previous section, research on rule generation has been focused on optimization from the viewpoint of a kind of efficiency or robustness, with little focus on readability.
Simulation-based rule generation considering readability
One of the important issues related to textbooks which needs attention is readability (Educational Terminology, 1998) termed in Arabic as Maqru'iyyah or Inqira 'iyyah (Tucaymah and al-Thucaybi, 2006).
The readability of Balaghah textbook of Malaysian higher certificate of religion (Stam): A pilot study
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