Audio Conferencing is great for your business. There are many proven models used successfully by small as well as large corporations. A great example involves using conferencing for reporting quarterly reports. Investors would like accurate and timely information in order to make what they believe would be the proper decisions. Before the use of conferencing calls, news and research reports were the main source of financial information. Today, you have another option. One can use conferencing calls to get their business information.

Audio conferencing calls are held at least four times a year by most public companies. The calls are usually held between two and five weeks after a quarter is done, and are a useful tool for investors and financial analysts who then can hear first hand what the management has to say about their quarterly results.

These conferencing calls, also known as earnings calls, analyst calls or earnings conference calls, are held as audio streams and are available after the actual call. In the beginning these audio calls were available only to institutional investors and Wall Street analysts. Now they are being made increasing available to individual investors through the power of the web.

These conferencing calls follow the same usual structure, the operator or host introducing the company management team at the beginning. Then maybe the legal counsel of the company reads out the usual legal disclaimers or at bare minimum someone announces these things. After this, the company management greets everybody and then the chief operating officer or the chief executive officer talks about the performance and future prospects of the company.

Usually the raw financial data including the reported earnings and revenues are discussed after this, followed by the company projected earnings and revenues. You can find plenty of the information provided by the COO or the CEO in the beginning of the report and information may be found in the press releases.

More important is the way the conferencing call is presented. Many experts believe that you can learn a lot about the future potential of the company from the tone and the manner in which the message is delivered during the conferencing call.

After the management has presented its company report, the participants are then invited to ask questions. Individual investors may or may not get a chance to ask their questions, but most get the important information they are looking for by listening to the answers to the questions asked by analysts during the conference if the company is effective in the use of the conferencing call..

Since the management has no time to prepare for any questions, you can make out if it is under any pressure. A decent company would have this covered. You will gain a great amount of experience as you listen to more and more conferencing calls and then you will learn to judge if a management is strong or maybe even bluffing.

If you look around, you will find most companies post their conferencing call schedules on their websites. You will find this information is usually available on stock research websites. If you miss it you can go through the archives of the company’s conference archive to find what you are looking for. If you are not using this yet in your company, you should seriously consider it.

In summary, if you want to research a company and they conduct audio conferencing calls, one would benefit listening in and taking the above tips to get a better feel of the true pulse of the company. If you own a company, offering a conference service would greatly increase your reach so seriously consider it, and if you are concerned that weaknesses are being exposed..think of it on the bright side and consider it a place to find parts of the business that needs to be addressed and fixed. Your company and reputation would greatly benefit.