Reporting to Stakeholders

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Does your current reporting take a sufficiently holistic approach? This course will make sure that you stay on top of key developments and trends to help you meet the changing expectations of both internal and external stakeholders.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Reporting to Stakeholders

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Reporting to Stakeholders

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

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.

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

How it works

Author

accountingcpd

This course has been written by the accountingcpd author team.