42 min
Episode 11: What’s the future for annual reports? Growth Capital by The QCA
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- Business
They are the doorstopper documents that just keep growing. QCA research found that company annual reports add an average 5,800 words every year.
Who’s reading them? And what’s the value of a once-a-year document when investors can access reams of real-time data?
After recent governance rethinks, what else needs to change to formulate a package that offers transparency and inspires corporate confidence?
This conversation features two guests from QCA member firms:
Phil Austen, sales director at Perivan, the UK’s number one producer of annual reports, IPO prospectuses and investor communications. Phil’s career in financial printing began 35 years ago at St Ives and his own printing consultancy, Corporate Ink, was acquired by Perivan in 2017;Andrew Jones, director and head of narrative reporting at Mazars, who has over twenty years’ experience of technical accounting, performance measurement in capital markets and non-financial reporting.
They are the doorstopper documents that just keep growing. QCA research found that company annual reports add an average 5,800 words every year.
Who’s reading them? And what’s the value of a once-a-year document when investors can access reams of real-time data?
After recent governance rethinks, what else needs to change to formulate a package that offers transparency and inspires corporate confidence?
This conversation features two guests from QCA member firms:
Phil Austen, sales director at Perivan, the UK’s number one producer of annual reports, IPO prospectuses and investor communications. Phil’s career in financial printing began 35 years ago at St Ives and his own printing consultancy, Corporate Ink, was acquired by Perivan in 2017;Andrew Jones, director and head of narrative reporting at Mazars, who has over twenty years’ experience of technical accounting, performance measurement in capital markets and non-financial reporting.
42 min