Integrated Thinking & Reporting for sustainable growth and competitiveness

A recent seminar, Practicing Integrated Thinking and Reporting, organised by members of the Performance Management research cluster dealt with the topic of sustainable growth and competitiveness. The seminar brought together practitioners and academics from 24 countries at the recent European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC) conference held at NUI Galway.

Guest speakers on the day included Ray Cantwell, Senior Finance Director of Global Operations, Medtronic; Massimo Romano, Head of Group Integrated Reporting and CFO Hub, Generali S.p.a; and Nick Topazio, Head of Reporting Policy at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).  They discussed the need to highlight the creation of sustainable value for stakeholders within annual reports by focusing on forward looking information for companies, as opposed to simply reporting historical content.

Professor Breda Sweeney, head of Accountancy and Finance Discipline at NUI Galway, commented on the close alignment between the themes discussed at the ENROAC conference and research carried out in the Discipline: “Through the Performance Management Research cluster based in the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change we have examined a range of contemporary issues such as the need for both efficiency and innovation in private and public sector organisations and how performance measurement systems can stimulate action and drive accountability.”

The event was sponsored by CIMA’s General Charitable Trust, KPMG and Fáilte Ireland.

Attendees of the Practicing Integrated Thinking and Reporting seminar held at NUI Galway on 3rd of June 2015