This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Schroders Analyst Andrew Lynch talks with IR Magazine about IR web technologies
New Organization Is Large Step to Combined Financial & CSR Reports
The International Integrated Reporting Committee, or IIRC, is tasking itself with creating a globally accepted framework for bringing together financial, social, environmental, and governance information.
Related: One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Related: Should Businesses Publish Integrated Reports That Include Sustainability? (thanks Luis)
Where Did You Say You Were Going?
Companies should spend a little bit more time and effort talking about where they’re going as opposed to where they have been. Because those future cash flows are a crucial component that investors use to value the stock.
Disclosure Concerns: When is a Deal a Deal? And When Should It Be Announced?
Ask two attorneys about when it is appropriate to disclose merger negotiations and you’ll most likely get three opinions. This is an issue that emerges more often than you would think.
Analysts Penalyzing Companies for Unpredictable FX Results- Expert
What is surprising to me, or anyone who reads transcripts of many of these calls, is the disparity in the degree of confidence, competence and sophistication you can find in the responses to these questions from CFOs and CEOs.”
What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago – a 43% increase.
Report: How People Watch – The Global State of Video Consumption
To get a better sense for how the world is watching video, today, Nielsen recently completed a survey of more than 27,000 online consumers in 55 countries, asking simple questions about how they watch video.
Effective Uses of Hashtags on Twitter to Help Attract Investors
Hashtags are essentially a simple way to catalogue and connect tweets about a specific topic. They make it easier for users to find additional tweets on a particular subject, while filtering out the incidental tweets that may just coincidentally contain the same keyword.
Survey of LinkedIn use by Financial Advisors
94% of advisors use Linkedin, but 61% use it less than 1 hour per week. Interesting results.
Why Some Companies Don’t Get Social Media
For those of drinking the Kool-Aid, it seems like a no-brainer for companies to embrace social media as a new and different to communicate, market and sell. The number of people using social media and the benefits of getting on the bandwagon appear to be so obvious, any reluctance to at put a toe in the water is puzzling.
Did you miss these posts on IR Web Report this week?
- Most US investors get PR wire releases 80 seconds after Wall Street
- How to fix the 80-second disclosure gap
- IR, investor groups absent from ‘integrated reporting’ committee
- Investor relations on Twitter: 10 great examples
Have a great weekend!
Dominic (bio & disclosures) is IR Web Report‘s founder and an online investor relations consultant. He advises leading public companies and investor relations service providers worldwide on using the web for disclosure, engagement and profile building. You can contact him via the contacts page.
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