Corporate Financial Reporting

Corporate Financial Reporting

The requirements for the assessment.

You are required to prepare an essay of approximately 2,500 words on the following topic:

“Consider to what extent the regulatory framework, together with the various codes and guidelines, encourages companies to report non-financial information in their annual reports, and assess the usefulness of such information to shareholders”

For the purposes of illustration in this essay, you should draw on [but not exclusively] the material used to support the original presentation and the company chosen by your group for the group presentation. Your essay must also include a literature review of relevant texts on developments in this area. The extent of your bibliography will be considered as part of the overall assessment of your work.

A Harvard referencing tutorial can be found at :    

    http://ist.glos.ac.uk/referencing/harvard/

The tutorial should take approx 20 minutes to work through and includes lots of examples of different types of resources. It is based on the “Cite them right” book (Richard Pears and Graham Shields (2008). Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. Newcastle upon Tyne, Pear Tree Books.) available on Amazon and copies in the Learning Centre.

More details about referencing, including a quick referencing guide and a tutorial about plagiarism, details of how to reference sources such as websites, online journals, newspaper articles, and official publications, are available at:

 http://insight.glos.ac.uk/departments/lis/resources/Pages/referencing.aspx