Seeing as many of you may be hip-deep in annual reporting I thought I’d share this interesting piece with you. A designer named Nicholas Felton has published an annual report of his life for the last 3 years. Although fluffy from a content perspective, Nicholas has some very creative ways to display the information of the year gone by. Read the complete Post.

Article from Don Tappscot from the first day of the World World Economic Forum in Davos showed up yesterday. It has an interesting note about transparency that I wanted to share:

One of most insightful for me was with Samuel DiPiazza, the CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers. PWC has been a leader in the next generation of reporting – they call it value reporting – where the financial report is about al lot more than earnings and financial information. XBRL and the Web 2.0 are poised to transform reporting, where the focus will not just be on compliance but on transparency.

I wonder whether PWC could finally cash in on its leadership position in this area. More important, next-generation reporting could help companies be better understood by their stakeholders, including shareholders, not to mention bring some transparency to financial markets and in doing so possibly avoid crises such as the one we are currently experiencing.

Transparency is certainly a signficant trend in corporate disclosure that we’ll be covering more in this blog over the coming weeks.

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