ABSTRACT

Better Corporate Reporting outlines the latest frameworks for enhancing non-financial and sustainability reporting. It shows you how to integrate non-financial data into your reporting and overall strategy, creating long-term value, trust and transparency. It includes guides to: the International Integrated Reporting Council's new framework; the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 framework; and a detailed look at the concept at the heart of both of these new frameworks, materiality. It is the compilation of 3 bestselling sustainability guides on sustainability reporting.Understanding Integrated Reporting provides a practical and expert distillation of the new IR framework released by the International Integrated Reporting Council in December 2013. It explains what IR is and how to do it; how it links with other reporting frameworks and what it means in terms of thinking and processes. You'll also get a clear business case for IR and insights and best practice examples from leading integrated reporters.

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Sustainability Reporting Framework was launched in May 2013. In Understanding G4, corporate reporting veteran Elaine Cohen presents an easy-to-follow review of everything any organization needs to know to decide whether to use the G4 Framework and if so, how.

Materiality is the lynch-pin that can align your sustainability initiatives with your overall strategy. Making Sustainability Matter shows you how to identify your organization's most material sustainability issues, allocate resources to sustainability initiatives for optimal returns; connect your communications and reporting to materiality, and; clarify which issues are important to your stakeholders. Materiality is a core concept in both the GRI's new G4 framework the IIRC's new Integrated Reporting framework.

part |83 pages

Understanding Integrated Reporting

chapter 3|2 pages

The Essential Ingredients of <IR>

chapter 4|8 pages

The Fundamental Concepts

chapter 5|3 pages

The Guiding Principles

chapter 7|8 pages

How to Report

chapter 8|13 pages

A Word on Assurance of Integrated Reports

part |118 pages

Understanding G4

chapter 1|4 pages

Why GRI and Why G4?

chapter 2|6 pages

What Does a G4 Report Look Like?

chapter 3|3 pages

The Language of G4

chapter 4|16 pages

What’s Different About G4 Versus G3?

chapter 5|4 pages

How Do You Start Writing a G4 Report?

chapter 8|4 pages

Does My G4 Report Need to be Audited?

part |114 pages

Making Sustainability Matter

chapter 1|29 pages

What, Why and Who

chapter 2|72 pages

How