Many believe that the UK has the best corporate reporting system in the world. But, the reality may not match the perception. The solution may be more straightforward than many would guess.
Read more...Recently published guidelines on what investors want to see in viability statements should be useful information for reporting companies but are much less helpful than might have been expected
Read more...Corporate reporting commentators proclaim improved compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code during the 2016 reporting season. But all is not what it seems.
Read more...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?
Read more...Of the 66 FTSE100 companies reporting since the inception of the 2014 UKCGC 43 [65%] have nothing to say about Brexit.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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