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4. ''Financial reporting - investor relations.'' | 4. ''Financial reporting - investor relations.'' | ||
In the context of reporting and communication, "boilerplate" | In the context of reporting and communication, "boilerplate" can have negative connotations. | ||
Boilerplate comments are standard-worded ones that fail to offer useful insights about the different situations being described. | Boilerplate comments are standard-worded ones that fail to offer useful insights about the different situations being described. | ||
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5. ''Origins - engineering.'' | 5. ''Reporting - standard forms.'' | ||
A specification of a reporting format. | |||
This type of boilerplate is designed to ensure that reporting is complete and easy to receive and incorporate into other systems, for example by always including - as a minimum - specified important items in a prescribed order. | |||
6. ''Origins - engineering.'' | |||
A standard form of steel manufactured in rolled plates. | A standard form of steel manufactured in rolled plates. | ||
Revision as of 16:01, 7 December 2021
1. Documentation - contract - law.
Standard wording that can be incorporated into a draft contract or other document, designed to reduce the expense and delay of extensive negotiations and of errors.
2. Documentation - contract - law.
Entire standard-worded draft documents produced for similar reasons.
3. Information technology.
Abbreviation for boilerplate code.
A section of code that is repeated without modification - or with only minimal modifications - in different places.
4. Financial reporting - investor relations.
In the context of reporting and communication, "boilerplate" can have negative connotations.
Boilerplate comments are standard-worded ones that fail to offer useful insights about the different situations being described.
- Too much boilerplate reporting
- "Unfortunately, as last year, we continue to see the use of boilerplate or declaratory statements.
- These statements are seldom substantiated by actions or examples, and therefore do not offer insight into company governance...
- ... the vast majority of reporting on outcomes of community engagement remained generic and boilerplate."
- Review of Corporate Governance Reporting - Financial Reporting Council - November 2021, p3 & p30.
5. Reporting - standard forms.
A specification of a reporting format.
This type of boilerplate is designed to ensure that reporting is complete and easy to receive and incorporate into other systems, for example by always including - as a minimum - specified important items in a prescribed order.
6. Origins - engineering.
A standard form of steel manufactured in rolled plates.
Steel boilerplates can be used in turn for a number of engineering purposes, including making boilers.
By analogy, the term boilerplate was then extended to printed material, in the era when smaller local newspapers incorporated syndicated material supplied to them in the form of pre-prepared blocks of metal typeset text.
