The latest news and developments. In this newsletter published February 2018: Register today: IIRC Global Conference 2018 Call to academic institutions to get involved IIRC reacts to High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance call for greater integration IIRC appointed to 2018 B20 Task Force Who’s feeding the goose? Jonathan Labrey, Chief Strategy Officer, IIRC, …
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has welcomed the call from the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance for European action towards greater integration in corporate reporting. The Group, which released its final report today, has called on the European Commission to “place greater emphasis on the need to integrate non-financial information” in the EU …
This was first published by International Accounting Bulletin on 29 Jan 2018. The World Economic Forum doesn’t just test the temperature of the world economy, it helps to set it. I think the ‘anxious optimism’ described in the title of PwC’s annual CEO survey – one of a skew of reports and surveys launched during …
This was first published by International Accounting Bulletin on 26 Jan 2018. “It isn’t the future, it is now.” That was the optimistic view of digitalisation at the World Economic Forum, according to Chinese tech company, Baidu. The session was conducted in front of a screen emblazoned with the words ‘big tech’.The debate reminded us …
This was first published by International Accounting Bulletin on 25 Jan 2018. The world has agreed global goals, so it is natural that the world’s pre-eminent business forum is debating them. Much of the last 24 hours for the IIRC has involved a series of meetings on how corporate reporting can genuinely support the Sustainable …
This was first published by International Accounting Bulletin on 24 Jan 2018. That was the topic running through many of yesterday’s Davos debates. It was investors who most talked of the risks: The Carlyle Group identifying so-called ‘black swans’ or unanticipated risks such as a new global health pandemic; M&G Investments warned of the possibility …
This was first published by International Accounting Bulletin on 23 Jan 2018. This is the third time I’ve attended the World Economic Forum and, for all the talk of glitz and glamour, the word being mentioned most amongst new arrivals is: “snow”. There’s a lot of it. Indeed an avalanche warning meant my train to …
My new book, The Company Citizen, argues that the problems of the planet, nation and community can’t be resolved without the active engagement of business, alongside other sectors – and furthermore, that a business case can be made for that activity. A legitimate question arises: ‘How do we know what impact is being delivered?’ And …
Sustainability is at risk. And whilst the risks that go beyond climate change may be less well-understood, they are just as pressing. That was the message at the first meeting of the European Union’s Multi-Stakeholder Platform on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on 10 January in Brussels. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) is serving …
By Ryohei Yanagi, CMA, CFM, and Nina Michels-Kim, CMA, CCCA “The Power of Intangibles” by Gary Cokins and Nick Shepherd in the May 2017 issue of Strategic Finance provided a call to action to management accountants to understand intangibles and their relationship to value creation. In addition, the September 2017 article on “Sustainable Development Goals” …