This course will enable you to
- Identify the different needs of various stakeholder groups.
- Stay ahead of the standard setters to anticipate financial reporting trends.
- Identify trends in audit and how they may affect your accounting and reporting policies.
- Develop non-financial reporting on issues such as carbon performance and sustainability.
- Tell the story of your business to your stakeholders.
About the course
Finance teams must provide information to meet the developing needs and expectations of a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Some of this is governed by rules and standards like IFRS and local GAAP, but finance leaders need to look at the bigger picture and respond appropriately.
This course discusses how to balance the potential benefits gained from providing information, with the costs of collecting and presenting it. It will help you to futureproof your organisation's approach by covering some key financial reporting, audit and non-financial reporting trends. It also looks at how to provide context for your financial statements and forward-looking information to your stakeholders.
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Contents
- Stakeholder needs
- Are all stakeholders equal?
- Shareholders
- Trade creditors
- Long-term creditors
- Government
- Internal versus external stakeholders
- Internal stakeholders
- Financial reporting trends
- Trends
- Integrated reporting
- Integrated reporting
- Risk reporting
- Cost benefit analysis
- Disclosures
- Business combinations
- Audit trends
- Trends
- Quality management issues
- Quality management
- Complexity and flexibility
- Standard setting moves slowly
- New ways of doing and reporting business
- Sustainability reporting
- Reporting on other matters
- Integrated reporting
- Seven guiding principles
- Eight content elements
- Presenting the content elements
- The benefits of sustainability
- Stakeholder theory and the triple bottom line
- ESG standards
- New reporting rules
- Categories of measurement
- Tools for calculating carbon emissions
- Carbon footprint: top tips
- Narrative reporting
- The basics of narrative reporting
- Why use narrative reporting?
- The stakeholder perspective
- Disclosures for risks and uncertainties
- Defining value
- Reporting on performance
- Evaluating performance
- Discussing performance in a meaningful way
- The practicalities of narrative reporting
- Enhancing credibility on the narrative report
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