Recent changes to auditor reporting standards have not only improved the quality of information available to investors, but also had positive effects on broader elements of financial reporting, including governance and corporate reporting; according to a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on the agreement reached with the EU Council by S&D MEP Lucy Anderson on a regulation to improve cross-border parcel delivery services.
Through this regulation, Socialists and Democrats have ensured greater transparency on workers’ terms and conditions in the parcels sector, and provisions to help SMEs by bringing down barriers to e-commerce between EU member states.
The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament today strongly urged the 11 EU member states that still have not ratified the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence to do so without any further delays.
The European Parliament’s co-rapporteur on the Istanbul Convention, S&D MEP Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy, said:
Companies reporting under the International Integrated Reporting (<IR>) Framework have, for the most part, made striking progress in quality over the last year but there’s scope for businesses to reap more benefits by embedding integrated thinking into internal decision-making processes, according to ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
Welcome to this first edition of Life BREWERY newsletter. Featuring key project events, research and dissemination activities and publications, our newsletter will highlight the most important news about Life BREWERY project until the end of the project in 2020.
