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Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?
PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through.
According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats that [...]
SEC's new guidance for websites imminent
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to consider publishing long-awaited new guidance governing how companies can use their websites to communicate with investors.
According to a notice, the commission will meet Wednesday to consider publishing the “interpretive release” that is expected to address a number of important issues that could set precedents for [...]
Reflections on 2008 annual report season
THE online annual reporting period in Europe and North America is drawing to a close — and except for an elite group of forward-thinking companies it has been a disappointing season.
This was the first year where many companies had the option of delivering their reports on the web as the default option. This was also [...]
Innovator: zu.com communications inc.
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Firm name: zu.com communications inc. Date [...]
Wienerberger proves bricks aren't boring
AS CORPORATE reporting moves increasingly to the web, annual report designers are learning that it’s incredibly difficult to create attention-grabbing online communications.
We often see their feeble attempts in the form of online annual report splash pages, covers or homepages. If you’re lucky there’s some dancing text and flashing video, but most often even these attempts [...]
News Digest for October 13, 2006
There are 7 items… SEC Delays Access Hearing | CEO Confidence Declines, The Conference Board Reports | Jasdaq, Nasdaq consider alliance | Price war erupts as Bank of America offers free online stock trades | Multimedia on IR Websites | Online Annual Reports – of Spinach and Popeye | Business change to lure [...]
NIRI Article's Annual Report Stats Don't Stand Up
By Dominic Jones
TELLABS Inc.’s vice president of corporate communications makes a spirited defense of printed annual reports in a cover story for the National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI) September 2006 newsletter.
George Stenitzer, an experienced annual report producer and a noted speaker and expert on the topic, cites statistics from surveys with his company’s shareholders as [...]
Ignorance, arrogance and Philips Electronics
NETHERLANDS-based Philips Electronics has an unhealthy disrespect for its shareholders. Despite participating in an academic study showing that the majority of its investors prefer HTML annual reports, the company has posted its most recent report in a 219-page PDF blob.
The company’s actions raise questions about its intentions and the transparency of its reporting. Doubt also [...]
Improving the usability of financial statements
REVIEWING financial statements lies at the heart of investment research. It’s what investors do most often when keeping track of the companies they follow or own.
So when it comes to choosing places to invest your IR website dollars, annual and quarterly financial statements are a high value target.
Well designed, highly usable financial statements improve the [...]
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