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Predicting an uncertain future: narrative reporting and risk information

Sami Souabni, 2011. This paper reviews the state of risk and business forecast information disclosure in narrative reporting. It is based on a review of annual reports from industry leaders in the UK, Germany, the US, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.

PDF 01/04/2011
Disclosure practices and policies of UK charities

Jetty and Beattie, 2009. This study examined the narrative disclosure practices and policies of a sample of large fund-raising and grant-making charities within the UK. Through a combination of holistic content analysis of the form and content of reporting packages and a series of interviews with charity managers it explored the motivations for the disclosure practices observed from the content analysis. The report documents what is reported (practices) as well as why it is so (policies). (Ref: RR-108)

PDF 01/01/2009
Narrative reporting by UK charities

Connolly and Dhanani, 2009. This study is the first in-depth study of the form and content of the narrative element of charities’ reporting documents. It offers insights into why charities choose to disclose (or not disclose) in their public reporting documents. (Ref: RR-109)

PDF 01/01/2009
Social and environmental narrative reporting: analysts' perceptions

Campbell and Slack, 2008. An ACCA research report, Narrative Reporting: Analysts' Perceptions of its Value and Relevance was published in November 2008. The research considered analysts' views on five key elements of narrative reporting, including social and environmental disclosures. Due to the significant interests ACCA has in corporate transparency with regards to sustainability, this specific part of the research has been highlighted in this paper. The other parts of the research have been summarised only.

PDF 22/03/2008
Narrative reporting: analysts' perceptions of its value and relevance

Campbell and Slack, 2008. This report describes the voluntary narrative sections of company annual reports with particular reference to the annual reports of UK banks. It explores questions of usefulness and materiality of annual report narrative disclosures. (Ref: RR-104)

PDF 02/01/2008

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