VIEWPOINT: On your marks, get set – go for sustainability

“The result – watered-down ‘integrated reports’ and ‘sustainability reports’ that were full of disclosure gaps.” The penny has finally dropped. To survive and thrive, companies are embedding sustainability into management reporting For corporate South Africa, sustainability became real in 2010, when the King III Code became effective for JSE-listed companies. Managements now needed to ‘comply…

VIEWPOINT: The all year Annual Report

“The financial year-end comes and goes, so now the financial department knuckles down to its yearly wrap-up while the other departments compile their results.” Use the annual report as a management tool and ease the year-end pain The second of South Africa’s bi-annual reporting ‘silly seasons’ ends in early October. Like me, hundreds of weary…