Report
1. Noun.
A formal statement of financial or other information.
2. Human resources - employees.
An individual whose work is overseen by a line manager.
3. Management - employees - contractors - governance - verb.
An employee or contractor reporting to a line manager, client or other supervisor, works under any instructions or frameworks the manager sets, and discusses progress and completion with the manager as required.
Similar structuring and governance at more senior levels, for example in internal auditors generally reporting directly to a sufficiently senior and independent audit committee of the organisation.
4. Verb.
To produce formal or informal statements of work undertaken, together with findings and recommendations.
5. Law - regulation - conduct.
To disclose to relevant authorities alleged or suspected breaches of law, regulation, rules of conduct, or similar guidance.
See also
- Annual report
- Audit report
- Auditors’ report
- Best practice
- Boilerplate
- Breach
- Carbon reporting
- CbC reporting
- Central bank reporting
- Coaching
- Code
- Competence
- Compliance
- Conduct
- Contract
- Contractor
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- Directive
- Directors report
- Disclosure
- Dual reporting
- Employee
- Enforcement
- Ethics
- European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG)
- European Sustainability Reporting Standards
- Extensible business reporting language
- Financial reporting
- Financial Reporting Standard
- Financial Stability Report
- Framework
- Gap report
- Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Global Sustainable Development Report
- Good practice
- Governance
- Guidance
- Human resources
- Impact reporting
- Integrated reporting
- Integrated Reporting Framework
- Interest rate gap report
- Interim financial report
- Internal audit
- International Financial Reporting Standards
- International Integrated Reporting Council
- Jurisdiction
- Law
- Legislation
- Line manager
- Malfeasance
- Minimum standards of the Lamfalussy Report
- Mismatch report
- Monetary Policy Report
- Multibank reporting
- Non-Financial Reporting Directive
- Payment practices reporting
- Principle
- Qualified audit report
- Red tape
- Regime
- Regulation
- Report card
- Report and accounts
- Reported earnings
- Reporting
- Reporting entity
- Reporting line
- Reputational risk
- Risk management
- Risk management reporting
- Risk reporting
- Rules
- Scope 3 reporting
- Segregation of duties
- SOC 1 report
- SOC 2 report
- Stakeholder
- Standards
- Strategic Report
- Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)
- Supervision
- Sustainability reporting
- Tax
- The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022
- 360 degree feedback
- Unqualified audit report
- Value Reporting Foundation
- Whistle-blowing
