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This site is owned and managed by enterprise.com (e.com); and is entirely dedicated to state-of-the-art reporting practice and monitoring; reporting trends and report essentials; best practice benchmarking.
We welcome all visitors: chief financial officers, corporate communication managers, investor relations officers, auditors, analysts, consultants, advisers and agencies, and anyone else interested in (annual) reports.

How did companies report last year?

Annual Report on Annual Reports 2008

Reporting in tough times

Come rain, shine or other climate change, the annual report remains a much-needed beacon for investors and other stakeholders in difficult times.
Downturn, credit crunch, from inflation to depression, subprime and mortgage mess, mergers, acquisitions, delistings, energy prices, food crisis, risk spreading, long-term sustainability vs. quarterly guidance, corporate responsibility vs. financial irresponsibility... These are tough times for report makers.
How did the best -and less good or worst- reports -and others- dealt with the challenge? The answers are available in the Annual Report on Annual Reports 2008:
> 1,500 companies from 48 countries were selected
> 500 reports were rated and ranked
> 300 picks were selected for 30 report attributes
> 200 report assets and liabilities were checked

REPORT OF THE MONTH

Heidelberg (January 2009)

Heidelberg

Heidelberg

Heidelberg, Germany

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BEST ANNUAL REPORTS

Annual Report on Annual Reports 2008

How will you report this year?

What is your report worth? As the Nobel Prize in Economics Paul Krugman puts it "We are already... well into the realm of what I call depression economics".
In such a context and in the midst of the most serious financial crisis, reporting is made even more difficult.
And annual reports will be much expected to put things -and numbers- in a perspective that goes further than a blip on a trader's screen or quarterly results and warnings.
For essentials about annuals, go to www.reportwatch.net/report-essentials/
For tools to assess, optimize and benchmark reports, go to www.reportwatch.net/e-com/making-reports-pay-off/