For several years SPS has hosted the Strategic Value in Corporate Reporting Awards to highlight best practice examples in corporate reporting amongst UK-listed companies.
New national and international regulations are forcing companies to improve their reporting standards, and require the inclusion of narratives to explain business models and strategies. Whilst compliance means companies must pay ever [...]

At the Strategic Value in Corporate Reporting Awards presentation, Penny Shepherd MBE, CEO of UKSIF, promoter of sustainable investment in financial services, gave a keynote speech, highlighting the importance investors place on strategy information in annual reports. The audio of her speech is available here.

>>> Shepherd’s keynote speech – click here to listen

In April the SPS held its fifth annual awards for excellence in corporate reporting among FTSE350 companies. Senior executives, academics, politicians and guests joined the SPS in celebrating the best of strategy disclosure.
The award winners were congratulated for achieving best practice in the field, and were celebrated as exemplars that encourage others to aspire to [...]

The following companies have been shortlisted following the initial assessment by the Society’s awards selection board. The SPS will make nine awards at the ceremony on 14 April based on corporate reporting for year-ends between 1 October 2009 and 30 September 2010.
Best Overall Strategic Value Added by a FTSE100 Company
(Sponsor: Radley Yeldar)

Aviva
InterContinental Hotels Group
Land Securities [...]

The keynote speaker at the Strategic Value in Corporate Reporting Awards 2011 on 14 April will be Penny Shepherd MBE, CEO of UKSIF, promoter of sustainable investment in financial services.
Penny has been UKSIF Chief Executive since May 2005. She is also a lay member of the Actuarial Profession’s Professional Regulation Executive Committee.
She was the first [...]

The SPS is inviting sponsors to support the Strategic Value in Corporate Reporting Awards which recognise the very best practice in narrative reporting.
On 14 April 2011 the Society will confer the fifth Strategic Value in Corporate Reporting Awards to FTSE100 and FTSE250 companies for the quality of strategy disclosure in the narrative of their corporate [...]