<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The ongoing academic debate about Integrated Reporting (IR) outlines that a particular interest shall be accorded to the financial sector organizations. Furthermore, previous researches in the field of an IR demonstrates the need of further research in the developing the actual knowledge of the advancement and implementation of IR and how are companies applying the guiding principles given by the framework. Therefore, this research aims to analyze to what extent European Union financial sector organization are following the IIRF guidance. Using a sample of 140 annual reports, a manual content analysis has been employed to identify the compliance evolution of financial sector organizations towards the IIRF contents elements, for the period 2013-2017. Results reveals the attention given by financial organisations, toward the “Organisational Overview”, “Risks &amp; Opportunities” and “Business Model” content elements of IR. While the categories that remain unforeseen are “Performance &amp; Outcomes”, “Other Elements” but the problematical category is “Future Outlook” with the lowest disclosure degree.</p></abstract>

The ongoing academic debate about Integrated Reporting (IR) outlines that a particular interest shall be accorded to the financial sector organizations. Furthermore, previous researches in the field of an IR demonstrates the need of further research in the developing the actual knowledge of the advancement and implementation of IR and how are companies applying the guiding principles given by the framework. Therefore, this research aims to analyze to what extent European Union financial sector organization are following the IIRF guidance. Using a sample of 140 annual reports, a manual content analysis has been employed to identify the compliance evolution of financial sector organizations towards the IIRF contents elements, for the period 2013-2017. Results reveals the attention given by financial organisations, toward the “Organisational Overview”, “Risks & Opportunities” and “Business Model” content elements of IR. While the categories that remain unforeseen are “Performance & Outcomes”, “Other Elements” but the problematical category is “Future Outlook” with the lowest disclosure degree.

Integrated Reporting Framework Application: A European Case Study in the Financial Sector

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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The ongoing academic debate about Integrated Reporting (IR) outlines that a particular interest shall be accorded to the financial sector organizations....

Integrated Reporting Framework Application: A European Case Study in the Financial Sector

Published Online: Nov 29, 2019

Page range: 227 - 240

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2019-0021

Keywords
reporting, integrated approach, integrated reporting, IIRF

© 2019 Adriana Tiron-Tudor et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Integrated Reporting Framework Application: A European Case Study in the Financial Sector

Published Online: Nov 29, 2019

Page range: 227 - 240

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2019-0021

Keywordsreporting, integrated approach, integrated reporting, IIRF

© 2019 Adriana Tiron-Tudor et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
reporting, integrated approach, integrated reporting, IIRF