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.
Read more...In three years one company has progressed from average to exemplary in its corporate reporting. Could such improvement presage a matching upswing in performance?
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...The FRC’s latest project on corporate culture raises a number of questions. Will the challenges ultimately outweigh the benefits?
Read more...We have established incontrovertibly the correlation between the quality of narrative in strategic reporting and better than average market performance.
Read more...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?
Read more...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.
Read more...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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