22 September, 2020
CFO taskforce reveals plan to boost UN Sustainable Development Goals
Last week we got the bad news that the world has failed to hit a single target designed to help save biodiversity on Earth. This week a group of chief financial officers (CFOs) has given the United Na...
6 July, 2020
FRC issues principles for separation of audit from other services
A landmark in the reform of the UK audit market has been reached with the Big Four firms put on notice that the “operational separation” of audit from other services must take place by the end of ...
22 May, 2020
FRC urges companies to provide ‘full disclosure’ of survival prospects
UK companies are under notice to be transparent about their prospects for survival as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. The warning comes from the
10 December, 2019
European agreement on sustainable business taxonomy divides opinion
European institutions have taken a step closer to agreeing definitions of what constitutes green business activity. The end of last week saw the commission president and the European Parliament rea...
6 November, 2019
Boards gear up for section 172 disclosures
This is the year of corporate reporting. Its importance was underlined last week when the UK’s company reporting watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), wrote to the chairs of audit committ...
7 October, 2019
Active investors bring about better governance, academics confirm
Active investors are piling the pressure on boards and companies to change their ways or improve their governance, but the effects of all that engagement are notoriously difficult to measure. With the...
3 October, 2019
FRC citizens’ juries reveal public views on corporate governance
Commentators often make great claims for what the public thinks about complex issues like audit, corporate reporting and governance. But rarely are the public’s thought processes put to the test—u...
12 August, 2019
Sustainable funds prosper as strategic shift gathers pace
The evidence that fund managers across Europe have switched their attention to the sustainability of their stock picks grew this week, this time with research revealing proof of the strategic shift—...
9 August, 2019
Better Alignment Project maps the road to sustainability
Building a corporate reporting system that is effective, robust and reflective of the realities of doing business in the modern day is central to the work of the
4 June, 2019
