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The blunt instrument of corporate reporting?

28/06/2016 By Ian McDonald Wood

This thought piece raises interesting questions about: the wider role of corporate reporting, whether it can or should change Boards’ behaviours and what action will be needed if reporting regulation doesn’t succeed?

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Brexit hangs a question over risk reporting

28/04/2016 By Ian McDonald Wood

Of the 66 FTSE100 companies reporting since the inception of the 2014 UKCGC 43 [65%] have nothing to say about Brexit.

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A corporate reporting virtuous spiral

21/03/2016 By Ian McDonald Wood

The FRC’s letter to institutional investors hints at a sense of concern that they have yet to value the major benefits of effective corporate reporting.

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Risks, uncertainties, Brexit and Annual Reports

01/03/2016 By Neville Wells

Business leaders signing a letter to “stay in” the EU should consider declaring this material concern in their Annual Report. So far, few do, it would appear.

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OMG! Exemplary reporting reflects reality

16/02/2016 By Ian McDonald Wood

In three years one company has progressed from average to exemplary in its corporate reporting. Could such improvement presage a matching upswing in performance?

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Integrated reporting swells Britain’s soft power

19/01/2016 By Ian McDonald Wood

The rapid uptake of the voluntary Integrated Reporting framework across the world is an unexpected manifestation of the UK’s highly influential global soft power base.

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Learning to fish in the corporate reporting ocean

11/12/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

In search of more effective annual reports companies often appeal for help from external advisers in the hope that this will compensate for internal shortcomings. The help they get may not deliver the result they aspire to.

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The importance of ‘why?’ in narrative reporting

18/11/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

Investors are the primary audience of corporate reports, yet seldom get a direct answer to ‘why should I invest, or stay invested?’ from ever more important narrative content.

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Capturing culture in corporate reporting

09/11/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

The FRC’s latest project on corporate culture raises a number of questions. Will the challenges ultimately outweigh the benefits?

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Capitalising on the value of narrative reporting

20/10/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

We have established incontrovertibly the correlation between the quality of narrative in strategic reporting and better than average market performance.