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
New drive to integrate UN SDGs into corporate reporting
Efforts to place the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) front and centre of business thinking are to receive a shot in the arm following a new agreement to integrate them into corporate repor...
14 December, 2018
Debate heats up over sustainability reporting
The debate over company reporting is heating up once again. This time over sustainability issues. The EU may have brought into effect a new directive on non-financial reporting but there are many who ...
2 November, 2018
Corporate reporting approaches a new start
Fresh from this year’s soul-searching over corporate governance, one of the UK’s key watchdogs has now launched a
10 May, 2018
