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What assures stakeholders?
Research into what assures readers of corporate non-financial reports and new GRI sector guidelines have been published. Meanwhile a group of 11 NGOs has pledged to comply with a code of conduct aimed at creating greater accountability in the not-for-profit sector.
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OFR by any other name?
Are the business reviews that companies will be required to produce under the Company Law Reform Bill, currently being debated in Parliament, operating and financial reviews by any other name? Briefing investigates...
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OFR revisited
The OFR affair has certainly brought the importance of non-financial reporting to the public's attention. But the resulting confusion has been a distraction for companies wanting to produce accurate and in-depth accounts on their impacts.
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Government confirms OFR
abolition
Government ministers lay the Company Law Reform Bill before Parliament, including proposals not to force companies to produce operating and financial reviews, 'streamlined' narrative reporting requirements and an outline of directors' duties.
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A matter of trust
Two new surveys indicate that that while the public trusts global companies less and less, 'super' not-for-profits like Amnesty and WWF are gaining credibility. But, Briefing comments, these surveys do no make the distinction between different types of trust.
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Reporting round-up issue
86
Defra launches new guidelines for reporting on environmental impacts for businesses, ACCA announces the winners of its UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting and Freshfields scores a first for social reporting in the legal world.
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The Communicator
Lucie Sinclair of communications consultancy CO3 sets the scene for a series of articles on corporate responsibility communications.
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'Recalibrating' reporting
requirements
Welcome to the wacky world of top level government decision-making, when careful deliberation since March 1998 by company law reform experts is torn up in a Friday afternoon brainstorm by speech writers and spin doctors.
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GRI: third-generation
reporting
Nick Jones explains how a major update to the much used GRI guidelines brings new clarity, but also new challenges to CSR reporting.
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Reporting CCI
Effective reporting of corporate community investment should be a key component of any company's CSR programme. Jon Lloyd guides us through some of the complexities of CCI reporting and highlights some of today's best reporters.
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Reporting in crisis
Mallen Baker calls for leading corporate reporters to challenge what is becoming an increasingly tired format of the non-financial report.
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