Book description
An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movement
The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing to a sustainable society. Although integrated reporting has seen substantial development due to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to varying degrees, by market forces. In considering integrated reporting's current state of play, the authors provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the practice and success of the movement, starting with how companies can improve their own reporting processes. But the support of investors, regulators, and NGOs is also important. All will benefit, as will society as a whole.
Readers will learn how integrated reporting has evolved over the years, where frameworks and standards are today, and the practices that help ensure effective implementation—including, but not limited to an extensive discussion of information technology's role in reporting and the importance of corporate reporting websites. The authors introduce the concepts of an annual board of directors' "Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality" and a "Sustainable Value Matrix" tool that translates the statement into management decisions. The book argues that the appropriate combination of market and regulatory forces to speed adoption will vary by country, concluding with four specific recommendations about what must be done to accelerate high quality adoption of integrated reporting around the world.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: South Africa
- Chapter 2: Meaning
- Chapter 3: Momentum
- Chapter 4: Motives
- Chapter 5: Materiality
- Chapter 6: The Sustainable Value Matrix
- Appendix 6A: Comparing the Ford and Daimler Materiality Matrices
- Appendix 6B: Methodology for the Materiality Matrices Review
- Chapter 7: Report Quality
- Appendix 7A: Methodology for Analyzing 124 Company Integrated Reports
- Chapter 8: Reporting Websites
- Appendix 8A: Methodology for Website Coding
- Chapter 9: Information Technology
- Chapter 10: Four Recommendations
- About the Authors
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118646984
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