Broadening and deepening our understanding of value is absolutely vital for improving performance and building investor and stakeholder credibility, argues Anant G Nadkarni, Advisor, Value creation. Extensive research into value organised by a reputed global body of accountants estimates that the world’s combined ‘enterprise value’ rose from $30 trillion in 2001 to $90 trillion in …
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has welcomed the significance placed on the integration of information for investors made by the European Union’s High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, in their interim report released today. The Group, which is made up of highly respected leaders from the business world across Europe, specifically cites integrated reporting as …
The European Union’s Non-Financial Reporting Directive will see at least 6,000 companies across Europe change their reporting during the next 12 months. As a former Member of the European Parliament, I was deeply proud to have helped steer agreement of the Directive. Now, as the CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council, I am equally …
The US Financial Stability Board (FSB) will present its final report on the adoption of recommendations to provide a voluntary framework for disclosing climate-related information in financial filings at the G20 Summit next month in Hamburg, Germany. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created by the FSB in December 2015 and its …
The European Commission (EC) has adopted non-binding guidelines on the disclosure of non-financial information by companies which aims to help companies to disclose relevant and useful information on environmental and social matters in a consistent and comparable way. These guidelines follow on the EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large …
A group of more than 100 business leaders and companies are backing the recommendations of a task force on providing a voluntary framework for disclosing climate-related information in financial filings. The Financial Stability Board created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures nearly two years ago. It released its final report and supporting materials on …
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) welcomes the release of the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations – which uphold the key principles of Integrated Reporting – that companies should adopt an integrated approach to their risk management and that climate change is itself not simply an environmental issue, but a financial challenge …
The latest news and developments. In this newsletter published June 2017: IFAC calls on G20 governments to embrace Integrated Reporting European Commission Guidelines on Non-Financial Reporting underline encouragement towards Integrated Reporting Sharing, learning and inspiring. Have you joined the <IR> Network? Integrated Reporting becoming mainstream in Japan Academics research underpins development of Integrated Reporting You …
The 11th AMBS/LSE conference was organised by AMBS lecturers Dr Wei Jiang, Dr Alice Liang Xu and Dr Colin (Cheng) Zeng. Co-funded by the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk (CAIR) at AMBS, the LSE and the ICAEW’s charitable trusts, the one-day conference in June encouraged the search for multiple perspectives and stimulated insightful …
In an uncertain world, investors are increasingly looking for more than financial results when making investment decisions. Memories of the financial crash have cast a long shadow – even when things look good on paper, the examples of Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have shown that seemingly robust financials are not always as …