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Reporting to stakeholders

Integrated reporting

8.1 Integrated reporting (<IR>)

Integrated Reporting (<IR>) is seen by the International Integrated
Reporting Council (IIRC) as the basis for a fundamental change in the
way in which entities are managed and report to stakeholders.

The <IR> Framework sets out the purpose of an integrated report as
follows:

 “The primary purpose of an integrated report is to explain to
providers of financial capital how an entity creates value over time.

 An integrated report benefits all stakeholders interested in an
entity’s ability to create value over time, including employees,
customers, suppliers, business partners, local communities,
legislators, regulators, and policymakers.”

Objectives for integrated reporting:

 To improve the quality of information available to providers of
financial capital.

 To provide a more cohesive and efficient approach to corporate
reporting that draws on different reporting strands and
communicates the full range of factors that materially affect the
ability of an organisation to create value over time.

 To enhance accountability and stewardship for the broad base of
capitals (financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and
relationship, and natural).

 To support integrated thinking, decision making and actions that
focus on the creation of value over the short, medium and long
term.

Note: Categories of capital are not required to be adopted in preparing an entity’s
integrated report , and an integrated report may not cover all capitals – the focus
is on capitals that are relevant to the entity.

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