I am indebted to former students for many of the ideas suggested in this link. Executive Summaries Provide the Essence Executive summaries complete the report, whether an analytical report memo or whatever.
Executive summaries are the parts of the reports that are read first.
Readers may not even get to the detail in your report. They read the executive summaries to see if the rest of the report is worth reading. Executive Summaries Are Called Different Names Executive summaries go by so many different names. Sometimes the executive summary is called an Abstract. You usually find that designation in scientific papers and academic efforts.