Disruption in Financial Reporting: A Post-pandemic View of the Future of Corporate Reporting

New laws and regulations have been introduced to improve financial reporting transparency, but the information flow has not always been meaningful or useful. Financial scalds continue, and companies fail to give guidance about the future in an increasingly uncertain world. This book argues that the changes have masked an increase in the use of corporate PR, impression management, bullet points, glossy images, and other simulacra, which allow poor performance to be masked by misleading information. It offers solutions to improve information to investors and the public and examines and contrasts the latest thinking by the regularity authorities.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 21 January 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Since the global financial crisis of 2007-8, new laws and regulations have been introduced with the aim of improving the transparency in financial reporting. Despite the dramatically increased flow of information to shareholders and the public, this information flow has not always been meaningful or useful. Often, it seems that it is not possible to see the wood for the trees. Financial scandals continue, as Wirecard, NMC Health, Patisserie Valerie, and going back to Carillion (and many more) demonstrate. Financial and corporate reporting have never been so fraught with difficulties as companies fail to give guidance about the future in an increasingly uncertain world aided and abetted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This concise book argues that the changes have simply masked an increase in the use of corporate PR, impression management, bullet points, glossy images, and other simulacra which allow poor performance to be masked by misleading information presented in glib boilerplate texts, images, and tables. The tone of the narrative sections in annual reports is often misleading. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with insiders and experts, this book charts what has gone wrong with financial reporting and offers a range of solutions to improve information to both investors and the public. This provides a framework for a new era of forward-looking corporate reporting and guidance based on often conflicting multiple corporate goals. The book also examines and contrasts the latest thinking by the regularity authorities.

Providing a compelling exploration of the industrys failings and present difficulties, and the impact of future disruption, this timely, thought-provoking book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and professionals as well as policy makers in the field.

\n Weight: 300g\n
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367222178\n \n