The Integrated Reporting as a Source of Evaluation of Enterprise Performance

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing the integrated reporting, its purpose and role in the today’s society. The integrated reporting includes two components: financial and social. The importance of social and ecological priorities for leadership comes to the fore, as attention and efforts made to solving social problems give confidence that the business is reliable, sustainable, and attractive. Given the special focus of the integrated reporting, the interests of users and their information needs are considered. Features of international standards of the integrated reporting and the list of issues they cover are analyzed. Features of application of the integrated reporting in Ukraine are considered, in particular the report on management is detailed. The possibilities of expansion and concretization of the report on management are defined with regard to the purposes of users through professional dialogue between social responsibility specialists, financial directors, accountants and auditors within the limits of the business structure as such.

Keywords

• integrated reporting
• social reporting
• report on management