scholarly journals PUBLIC ENTERPRISES LAW REQUIREMENTS FOR DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Georgieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Operation Environment

The purpose of this report is to systematize the requirements of the regulatory framework for public enterprises regarding the disclosure of certain financial and non-financial information about their activities and resources management. An analysis of the nature of the required information leads to the conclusion that it is significantly closer to the concept of integrated reporting, where the activity, internal processes, the Company operation environment could be presented in their integrity and correlation.

scholarly journals Development of Integrated Reporting in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Rymkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quality Of Reports ◽  
Financial Disclosures ◽  
Social Environmental

Organizational reporting is the most important tool of communication between an enterpriseand its stakeholders. However, it is not a static tool but continues to develop and adapt to ongoingeconomic and social changes. Formerly covering only financial information; currently, it is supplementedby a wide range of non-financial information relating to all aspects of the business. The evolution ofreporting is particularly fostered by the rapid development of the concepts of corporate socialresponsibility and sustainable development, as well as the progressing changes in the information needsof stakeholders. Enterprises are increasingly publishing voluntary reports concerning the social,environmental, and employment aspects of their business in addition to reports required by law. Thisresults in the multiplication of reports and duplication of content, which has a negative impact on thereports' usefulness. The solution to this problem may be integrated reporting, which integrates andinterconnects financial and non-financial disclosures. A milestone for the development of integratedreporting was the elaboration of integrated reporting guidelines by the International Integrated ReportingCouncil (IIRC) in December 2013. The aim of the paper is to present the development of integratedreporting in Poland in 2014-2020 on the example of public companies listed on the Warsaw StockExchange. The quality of reports was assessed from the point of view of compliance with IIRC guidelines,as well as their usefulness for stakeholders. Content analysis of corporate publications and comparativeanalysis was used for this purpose.

It is not always bad news

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1319-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Anne McNally ◽  
Warren Maroun
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Reporting

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to challenge the notion that non-financial reporting is mainly about impression management or is only a superficial response to the hegemonic challenges posed by the sustainability movement. It focuses on the most recent development in sustainability reporting (integrated reporting) as an example of how accounting for financial and non-financial information has the potential to expand the scope of accounting systems, promote meaningful changes to reporting processes and provide a broader perspective on value creation. Design/methodology/approach The research focuses on an African eco-tourism company which has its head office in South Africa. A case study method is used to highlight differences in the presentation of an integrated business model according to the case entity’s integrated reports and how individual preparers interpret the requirement to prepare those reports. Data are collected using detailed interviews with all staff members involved in the preparation process. These are complemented by a review of the minutes of the company’s sustainability workshops and integrated reports. Findings A decision by the case organisation to prepare an integrated report gives rise to different forms of resistance which limits the change potential of the integrated reporting initiative. Resistance does not, however, preclude reform. Even when individual preparers are critical of the changes to the corporate reporting environment, accounting for financial and non-financial information expands the scope of the conventional accounting system which facilitates broader management control and promotes a more integrated conception of “value”. Research limitations/implications Integrated reporting should not be dismissed as only an exercise in corporate reporting and disclosure; it has a transformative potential which, given time, can enable new ways of managing business processes and articulating value creation. Originality/value This study answers the calls for primary evidence on how the requirement or recommendation to prepare an integrated report is being interpreted and applied by individual preparers. The findings add to the limited body of interpretive research on the change potential of new reporting frameworks. In doing so, the research provides theoretical support for developing arguments which challenge the conventional position that integrated reporting is little more than an exercise in impression management.

Discussion of Results

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-100
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Area 7 ◽  
Area 5 ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Value Creation Process

This chapter presents and discusses the results of our analysis. Regarding the findings our first research study, the questionnaire on IR, we organize the discussion of results into more sections, namely research area (1) the interaction between the financial and non-financial information; IR versus other reports; research area (2) the capitals and the value creation process; research area (3) defining integrated reporting; research area (4) IR costs and benefits; research area (5) determinants of integrated reporting; research area (6) recommendations concerning the IIRC framework; research area (7) the industry; research area (8) characteristics for IR information; research area (9) voluntary versus mandatory IR and assurance. The second part of our research presents the results of the SPSS analysis, and we interpret the data according to its economic and business significance.

The role of audit committee attributes in intellectual capital disclosures

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 756-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdifatah Ahmed Haji
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
Reporting Process

Purpose – This study aims to examine the role of audit committee attributes in non-financial information releases, with a focus on intellectual capital (IC) disclosures, following significant policy changes, mandating the audit committee function in Malaysia. The study argues that, given the changing informational needs of stakeholders and the ongoing discussion on integrated reporting, the role of the audit committee should extend to ensuring the overall quality of corporate reporting. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws evidence from a sample of leading Malaysian companies based on their market capitalisation over a three-year period (2008-2010), a period subsequent to the recent policy changes. The extent and quality of IC information, as a surrogate of non-financial information, was measured and regressed against several audit committee attributes, such as audit committee size, independence, financial expertise and meetings, controlling the overall governance and firm-specific variables. Findings – The findings show a strong positive role of the audit committee function in the overall amount of IC information as well as all three subcomponents of IC information (internal, external and human capital). The results are robust to controls for the overall governance and firm-specific attributes as well as different measures of IC information. Practical implications – The results suggest that the role of the audit committee function extends to non-financial information communication such as IC. Policymakers in Malaysia should, therefore, build on the recent regulatory changes and encourage audit committees to ensure that the overall quality of corporate reporting processes include social, environmental, intellectual as well as financial capital of a firm. Originality/value – This study considers the role of the audit committee in the wider corporate reporting process – drawing attention to its potential role in the espoused integrated business reporting. It also challenges the taken-for-granted assumption that restricts the role of the audit committee function to the traditional financial reporting process.

CAPTURING NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN INTEGRATED REPORTING

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Tanya Kumar ◽  
Theresa Nithila Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Financial Information ◽  
Integrated Reporting

scholarly journals The Framework for Audits of the Financial Statements of the Group of Enterprises by ISA 600 Requirements

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
V. P. PANTELEIEV
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Consolidated Financial Statements ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
Quality Audit ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Audit Strategy ◽  
Audit Standards

Compliance with relevant regulations is the basis of the professional activities of auditors. Users of financial statements require the auditor to conduct quality audit. The auditor’s opinion on the reliability of the financial statements of the group is based on the application of appropriate audit approaches, based both on audit practice and audit standards, and insist on compliance with recognized audit requirements. The aim of the article is to highlight the content of the main rules for an independent auditor to audit the financial statements of a group using the requirements of the modern regulatory framework, in particular International Standard of Auditing (ISA) 600. The essence of the main rules of an independent auditor conducting an audit of a group’s financial statements using the requirements of the modern regulatory framework, in particular ISA 600, is disclosed. The need for regulation of an audit of a group’s consolidated financial statements is formulated, the content and important provisions of the requirements of a professional standard ISA 600 “Special Considerations – Audits of group financial statements (including the work of component auditors)”. Interpretation of the requirements of ISA 600 for acceptance and continuation of the assignment, the role of the auditor’s assessment of distortions during the audit, audit activities to prevent, detect and combat fraud in the group, the obligation to use the component of the level of distortion by the auditor is given. The author’s vision of the special provisions of the audits of the financial statements of the group is indicated, the sequence of advancing audit procedures in the implementation of the special provisions of the audits, including the work of the component auditors, and the directions for further research are shown.  Conclusions. The responsibility of the auditor and the component auditor is envisaged, and atypical relevant measures are required in response to challenges; the auditor deals with complex structures, the information of the component auditors must be taken into account. ISA 600 is connected with other audit standards, it regulates a number of requirements with the aim of conducting a quality audit of the group financial statements: from the responsibility of the auditor, accepting and continuing the assignment, developing a general audit strategy and plan, understanding of the component auditor, communicating information to the group’s management personnel and those who endowed with high authority at the group level, etc. documentation. The peremptory question of ISA 600 is determining whether he should act as an auditor of the group financial statements, that is, reasonably refuse or accept the assignment; and if accepted and continued, the task if he acts as an auditor of the group financial statements: communication of clear information to the component auditors on the volume and time of their work with financial information relating to the components and the actual results obtained by them; obtaining sufficient audit evidence in sufficient amounts on the financial information of the components and the consolidation process to express an opinion that the group’s financial statements have been prepared in all material respects in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework.

scholarly journals Areas of changes in the International Integrated Reporting Framework in the context of substantial changes in the investors' approach to sustainable development issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (164) ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kobiela-Pionnier
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Reporting Framework ◽  
International Integrated Reporting Council

The purpose of the article is to present and evaluate the current activities of the International Integrated Reporting Council to improve the International <IR> Framework, in particular the considerations con-tained in the document Integrated Thinking & Strategy. State of Play Report, as well as the proposed change in the approach to the main user of the integrated report in accordance with Topic Paper 3: Chart-ing a path forward. The context for the evaluation is the profound changes in the approach to non-financial information currently taking place among providers of financial capital. They are not only in-creasingly interested in ESG issues to make investment decisions on this basis, but they also include them in their own business activities. In the course of her argument, the author indicates that the main purpose of the IIRC's activities is the transition from monocapitalism to multi-capitalism as a new economic doctrine for the 21st century, which is to be supported by changes in the <IR> Framework and the design of an improved value creation model. The change of the main user of integrated reporting from the pro-vider of financial capital to providers of all capitals planned by IIRC seems to constitute the first element of the materialization of the concept of multi-capitalism.

scholarly journals Integrated Reporting’s Impact on Corporate Governance: Study in Asean Capital Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Shanti Shanti ◽  
Bambang Tjahjadi ◽  
I Made Narsa
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
The Impact

<p class="JurnalASSETSABSTRAK">ABSTRACT</p><p>Integrated reporting (IR) that merges the firm's financial and non-financial information into one single reporting is the latest evolution of corporate financial reporting today. This study purposes to examine the impact of the implementation of IR on corporate governance, especially family business in the mining industry listed on the ASEAN capital market in the 2014-2017 period. The results of the study based on the Stata 14.2 statistical program concluded that the implementation of IR has a positive impact on corporate governance in the ASEAN capital market, i.e. the implementation of IR drivers changes in behavior and perceptions in corporate governance (reporting driven behavior), thus making corporate governance more effective.</p><p><em>ABSTRACT</em></p><p><em>Pelaporan terintegrasi (IR) yang menyatukan informasi keuangan dan non-keuangan perusahaaan ke dalam satu pelaporan tunggal merupakan evolusi pelaporan keuangan perusahaan terbaru saat ini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti dampak penerapan pelaporan terintegrasi (IR) terhadap tata kelola perusahaan, khususnya perusahaan keluarga dalam industri pertambangan yang terdaftar di pasar modal ASEAN tahun 2014 s.d. 2017. Hasil penelitian berdasarkan program statistik Stata 14.2 menyimpulkan bahwa penerapan pelaporan terintegrasi (IR) berpengaruh positif terhadap tata kelola perusahaan di pasar modal ASEAN, yaitu bahwa penerapan pelaporan terintegrasi (IR) memicu terjadinya perubahan perilaku dan persepsi dalam tata kelola perusahaan (reporting driven behavior), sehingga menjadikan tata kelola perusahaan menjadi lebih efektif.</em></p>

scholarly journals Integrated Reporting and European State-Owned Enterprises: A Disclosure Analysis Pre and Post 2014/95/EU

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Nicolò ◽  
Gianluca Zanellato ◽  
Adriana Tiron-Tudor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Social Environmental

The European Directive 2014/95/EU regulating the disclosure of non-financial information for public interest organisations is enjoying its first years since entering into force in 2017. The emerging of social, environmental and sustainability issues in combination with the New Public Management (NPM) reforms, led public sector entities to huge demands of accountability. Long time before the European Union Directive (EUD) on non-financial information, public sector entities were pushed to demonstrate to a broad range of stakeholders how public resources are used. Accordingly, the stakeholders’ increasing demand for social and environmental information has encouraged the adoption of different types of reports by organisations, such as the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, Sustainability Reporting (SR) and the Integrated Report (IR).In the context of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the disclosure of non-financial information gains a pivotal relevance as these type of organisations face a more comprehensive range of stakeholders than private organisations. In this vein, the present paper aims to investigate whether the mandatory disclosure directive increased the level of information provided by SOEs issuing an IR between the years 2016 and 2017 in order to demonstrate whether a mandatory regulation leads to higher disclosure.

scholarly journals Integrated Reporting Assurance: Perceptions of Auditors and Users in Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estibaliz Goicoechea ◽  
Fernando Gómez-Bezares ◽  
José Ugarte
Keyword(s):  
Financial Information ◽  
Audit Report ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Reporting Framework ◽  
International Integrated Reporting Council ◽  
Audit Activity ◽  
A Company

Integrated reporting is a key instrument used to inform stakeholders about the sustainability issues of a company. Only an assured report can effectively instill confidence in its users regarding the sustainability of the company. Based on the International Integrated Reporting Framework issued by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the authors solicited perceptions from auditors and audit report users about several aspects of integrated reporting assurance. An analysis of the responses suggests that integrated reporting assurance is important, but there are many challenges (both methodological and related to the characteristics of non-financial information) for auditors to overcome. Reporting companies and auditors must work to overcome these problems. The former ones must improve the quality of non-financial information and the later must adapt their audit procedures. This paper provides valuable insights into preferences regarding the form and content of the audit report on integrated reporting. This study is useful to regulators of audit activity, auditors’ corporations, the IIRC, and other international associations, academics, and audit report users, and contributes to the current integrated reporting literature by examining the perceptions of auditors and users regarding the assurance of integrated reporting. Integrated reporting assurance is still an under-explored field of research.

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