Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation (ICAAT 2016)

Integrated Reporting: A Story of Stakeholder Accountability

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Chisinga Chikutuma
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Chisinga Chikutuma
Available Online December 2016.
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10.2991/icaat-16.2016.4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Balanced scorecard, triple bottom line, sustainability reporting, integrated reporting
Abstract

The paper reflects on how different reporting frameworks developed over time as accountability adapted to changing needs of stakeholders which arguably contributed to the development of Integrated Reporting. A conceptual approach and a structured literature review are the methods employed in the paper. The paper dismisses the notion held in the literature that Integrated Reporting only began in 2010 (de Villiers, Rinaldi & Unerman, 2014) with the establishment of the Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Furthermore, the ever changing needs of stakeholders contributed to the growth of different reporting systems (Financial Reporting, Balanced Scorecard, Triple Bottom Line, Sustainability Reporting and Integrated Reporting). The paper may provide regulators, reporting organizations and academics with an accountability context in which the evolution of Integrated Reporting occurred. The paper departs from the popular view that began in 2010 and offers insights of how the changing dynamics of accountability due to the continuous change in stakeholders' needs contributed to the birth and development of . The paper further challenges that while it may successfully overcome some of the limitations of Financial Reporting, Balanced Scorecard, Triple Bottom Line, Sustainability Reporting; it still has a long way to go in order to address its own shortcomings.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation (ICAAT 2016)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
10.2991/icaat-16.2016.4
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/icaat-16.2016.4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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