New trends in the corporate achievement reporting system

Abstract

Nowadays, a characteristic phenomenon is the deepening of mutual integration between enterprises and their economic, social and environmental environment. It caused a change in thinking about the way enterprises communicate with external entities. The need has arisen for a new approach to the shape and range of the company’s reporting system. The answer covering this challenge is to extend the material scope of the company’s statements to non-financial information and the concept of mutual recognition of financial and non-financial information in one integrated report. These new trends in the system of reporting achievements by enterprises have been reflected in obligatory provisions and optional standards, both domestic and international. The purpose of this study is to discuss and evaluate those regulations. To attain that objective, the most critical challenges faced by the enterprise reporting system have been presented first. The findings confirmed that reporting of non-financial problems introduces to the reporting system a different perspective on the perception of the enterprise, which may be a source of additional benefits for both the enterprise itself and the addressees of the reports. Another conclusion that has been made in the course of deliberations is the statement that a useful concept of disclosing non-financial information is to integrate them with financial information in one coherent report. Furthermore, it has been shown that the principles of preparing the combined report and its thematic content meet the requirements set by the new EU and Polish legal regulations for the business reporting system