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For example, through a company's annual report and accounts.
For example, through a company's annual report and accounts.
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Limitations of general purpose financial reports'''''</span>
:"... general purpose financial reports do not and cannot provide all of the information that existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors need.
:Those users need to consider pertinent information from other sources, for example, general economic conditions and expectations, political events and political climate, and industry and company outlooks."
:''IFRS - Conceptual Framework.''




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3.  ''Risk - risk management.''
 
The communication of risk and risk management outcomes for the purposes of comparing the results with the policy and the early identification of potential problems.
 
 
4.  ''Information services - journalism - financial journalism.''
 
In information services and journalism, reporting includes investigating, witnessing and verifying facts, as well as their selection, interpretation and presentation.
 
Providers of financial information include Bloomberg, IDC and Reuters.
 
 
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More broadly, collating and publishing any significant information.
More broadly, collating and publishing any significant information.
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6.


More broadly still, any structured or unstructured communication about facts or alleged facts.
More broadly still, any structured or unstructured communication about facts or alleged facts.
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* [[Auditors’ report]]
* [[Auditors’ report]]
*[[Best practice]]
*[[Best practice]]
* [[Bloomberg]]
* [[Boilerplate]]
* [[Boilerplate]]
* [[Breach]]
* [[Breach]]
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* [[CbC reporting]]
* [[CbC reporting]]
* [[Central bank reporting]]
* [[Central bank reporting]]
* [[Coaching]]
*[[Code]]
*[[Code]]
*[[Competence]]
*[[Competence]]
*[[Compliance]]
*[[Compliance]]
* [[Conceptual framework]]
* [[Conduct]]
* [[Conduct]]
* [[Contract]]
* [[Contract]]
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* [[Disclosure]]
* [[Disclosure]]
* [[Dual reporting]]
* [[Dual reporting]]
* [[Employee]]
*[[Enforcement]]
*[[Enforcement]]
*[[Ethics]]
*[[Ethics]]
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*[[Framework]]
*[[Framework]]
* [[Gap report]]
* [[Gap report]]
* [[General purpose financial reports]]
* [[Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry]]
* [[Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry]]
* [[Global Reporting Initiative]]
* [[Global Reporting Initiative]]
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*[[Governance]]
*[[Governance]]
*[[Guidance]]
*[[Guidance]]
* [[Human resources]]
* [[IDC]]
* [[Impact reporting]]
* [[Impact reporting]]
* [[Integrated reporting]]
* [[Integrated reporting]]
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* [[Interest rate gap report]]
* [[Interest rate gap report]]
* [[Interim financial report]]
* [[Interim financial report]]
* [[International Financial Reporting Standards]]
* [[International Financial Reporting Standards]] (IFRS)
* [[International Integrated Reporting Council]]
* [[International Integrated Reporting Council]]
* [[Jurisdiction]]
* [[Jurisdiction]]
*[[Law]]
*[[Law]]
* [[Legislation]]
* [[Legislation]]
* [[Line manager]]
* [[Malfeasance]]
* [[Malfeasance]]
* [[Minimum standards of the Lamfalussy Report]]
* [[Minimum standards of the Lamfalussy Report]]
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* [[Reported earnings]]
* [[Reported earnings]]
* [[Reporting entity]]
* [[Reporting entity]]
* [[Reporting line]]
*[[Reputational risk]]
*[[Reputational risk]]
* [[Reuters]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Risk management reporting]]
* [[Risk management reporting]]
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* [[Tax]]
* [[Tax]]
* [[The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022]]
* [[The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022]]
* [[360 degree feedback]]
* [[Unqualified audit report]]
* [[Unqualified audit report]]
* [[Value Reporting Foundation]]
* [[Value Reporting Foundation]]

Latest revision as of 23:13, 15 May 2024

1. Financial reporting.

Collating and publishing financial information.

For example, through a company's annual report and accounts.


Limitations of general purpose financial reports
"... general purpose financial reports do not and cannot provide all of the information that existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors need.
Those users need to consider pertinent information from other sources, for example, general economic conditions and expectations, political events and political climate, and industry and company outlooks."
IFRS - Conceptual Framework.


2. Law - regulation - conduct.

Disclosure to relevant authorities about alleged or suspected breaches of law, regulation, rules of conduct, or similar guidance.


3. Risk - risk management.

The communication of risk and risk management outcomes for the purposes of comparing the results with the policy and the early identification of potential problems.


4. Information services - journalism - financial journalism.

In information services and journalism, reporting includes investigating, witnessing and verifying facts, as well as their selection, interpretation and presentation.

Providers of financial information include Bloomberg, IDC and Reuters.


5.

More broadly, collating and publishing any significant information.

For example, information relating to corporate social responsibility, including carbon reporting.


6.

More broadly still, any structured or unstructured communication about facts or alleged facts.


See also