26/10/2022

Dark nights, dark arts, Evil ESEF and the HELLISH road to digital reporting

The landscape of Annual Reporting has been ever-changing over the last decade or so - and for good reason...

05/05/2022

Preparing ESEF AFRs in iXBRL/XHTML Fit-for-Purpose or Forced-to-Fit?

I'm old enough to remember logging onto the internet using a telephone line dial-up, eagerly awaiting...

02/08/2021

"Roll it there Colette"...

If the late great Gay Byrne was with us today he could possible use his trademark catchphrase as an introduction to RTÉ's Annual Report for 2020...

14/06/2021

On the right tack!

We are delighted to have our work for Dublin Port Company selected for inclusion in The 100 Archive for 2020.

03/06/2021

ICG and C&C lead the way in RGB.

As we brace ourselves for the reopening of beer gardens and delight in the prospect of getting off the island sometime soon, we've been reflecting...

28/05/2021

Love me Tenderer*

Or return to sender?

On review of a recent RFT that crossed my desk from etenders, I was delighted to see that this particular state agency valued...

04/02/2021

Is it time to rethink the hybrid model and go all-interactive with your annual report?

Arguably more annual reports will be read from a digital platform this year than ever before, even by those who have not yet opted...

04/11/2020

How much material in the Annual Report is immaterial?

The FRC, in the opening of Section 1 of its Guidance on the Strategic Report, "encourages entities to experiment and be innovative...

21/08/2020

The digital journey to ESEF...

The Annual Report has always been considered the definitive publication of reliable truth as proclaimed by the C-Suite and subsequently...

26/06/2020

Are machines really reading Annual Reports? The Digital Future of Financial Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement

Few annual reports make it onto bestseller lists, and most certainly none should ever appear in the fiction category, yet many provide...

15/05/2020

Annual Reports - Online or On Paper?

The answer is simple: it depends who's reading it - or more to the point, how are they reading it? Over the years we have seen the volumes...