Non-financial performance indicators – Key aspects and differences in current reporting guidelines. An analysis of the different standards for corporate responsibility reporting. Cover Image

Schwerpunkte und Unterschiede bei CSR-Regelwerken. Eine Analyse bekannter Leitlinien zu nichtfinanziellen Leistungsindikatoren
Non-financial performance indicators – Key aspects and differences in current reporting guidelines. An analysis of the different standards for corporate responsibility reporting.

Author(s): Gunter Meeh-Bunse, Stefan Schomaker
Subject(s): Economy, Methodology and research technology, Accounting - Business Administration, Business Ethics, Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Globalization; Accounting; non-financial performance indicators;

Summary/Abstract: While investors in addition to financial data show increasing demand for non-financial information, performance indicators such reporting is now boosted by regulation. Such indicators are understood in the CSR context: decision relevant information about the ecological, economic and social action of an enterprise. In reporting such information preparers rely on national, European or international approaches. The objective of the paper is to analyze selected guidelines for CSR reporting in terms of their core areas. This should help preparers to choose the suitable reporting guidelines. It should also support stakeholders to better appraise the reported information. Thematic priorities of the different reporting guidelines in the context of corporate responsibility reporting are identified.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 141-152
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: German