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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.

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Accolades reveal portents of future reporting

05/10/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

Why did the seven Accolade winning companies succeed where others didn’t? What made them stand out? And what do these recent efforts suggest as to the hallmarks of the next reporting cycle?

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Mirror, mirror on the corporate reporting wall

15/09/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

The majority of the UK’s listed companies need a mirror for reflection before they use a lens to refine and focus their corporate reporting narrative messages on key stakeholder groups.

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Viability statements – the fun is about to start

18/08/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

The subtle new viability statement is a bigger challenge than most reporting companies first realise. The real task is to define long term risks that might be lethal to a business requiring companies to review business model and strategic direction, reporting both more clearly.

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Untapped potential of the effective Annual Report

28/07/2015 By Ian McDonald Wood

An authoritative recent survey of investment analysts reveals that contrary to common belief a significant proportion of analysts use Annual Reports as their primary source of information on companies.