Useful Links

CRUF – The Corporate Reporting Users’ Forum
The CRUF was formed in 2005 as a discussion forum with the aim of helping its participants in their approach to the debate on current and future corporate reporting requirements. In particular, participants are keen to have a fuller input into the deliberations of the International Accounting Standards Board.

Grant Thornton Business Reporting Resource Center
Grant Thornton is a leader in global efforts to improve business reporting such as the Enhanced Business Reporting Consortium, XBRL, EBRC/Gartner KPI initiative and WICI. These initiatives provide a path towards delivery of relevant information to all participants in the global capital markets and demonstrate Grant Thornton’s unwavering commitment to enhancing the quality and transparency of business information.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Reporting Program
For over a decade, PricewaterhouseCoopers has invested significant resources in thought leadership, research, and tangible initiatives in order to advance their understanding of, and provide insights into, what creates value in corporate reporting. PwC’s focus has been on facilitating engagement between those who report on performance with those who use the information to make critical investment decisions.

Report Leadership
Report Leadership is a multi-stakeholder group that aims to challenge established thinking on corporate reporting. They felt that corporate reporting should be more accessible and informative. The aim was to develop simple, practical, yet effective, ways to improve narrative and financial reporting.

U.S. SEC 21st Century Disclosure Initiative
The 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, established by Chairman Christopher Cox in June 2008, is the Commission's wide-ranging internal effort to fundamentally rethink financial disclosure. The Initiative will examine the basic purposes of disclosure from the perspectives of investors and markets and create a comprehensive high-level plan for overhauling the Commission's current forms-based disclosure system.