Reporting Guide 2025
The report provides 10 guidelines to improving the communication of value creation in the integrated annual report. These guidelines are not changing the concept, form and structure of a typical annual report. On the contrary, it is presenting best practice examples of elements that are already present in some annual reports from Danish companies.
Do you need help for the next annual report or ESG report?
Corporate Relations is assisting companies in developing their corporate reporting. This may include:
> to be in charge of project management, coordinating with designers, and internal and external stakeholders.
> to advise management and communications people in reporting – including compliance, standards and narratives.
> to analyze and advice on best practice and the reporting of the industry.
> to interview, copywrite, edit and proofread content for reports.
We cooperate with agencies, designers, developers and project managers and company stakeholders to create a targeted, transparent, consistent and aesthetic report.
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Trend report 2024
Corporate reporting has evolved in many directions in the last couple of years. Some are making more thematic reports for targeted stakeholders, some are making less in order to integrate themes and bottom lines in one core story on value creation.
Trend report 2023
ESG has become a key element in corporate reporting. It’s included in the key figures, in the business model and strategy, as a significant driver for development and growth, and it is a way to secure the company’s license to operate. In essence, ESG affects many of the current trends in corporate reporting.
Stakeholder analysis and engagement
Corporate Relations is designing and conducting stakeholder analysis and mapping for companies that needs to understand stakeholders’ needs and engagement with the company. The analysis will define the impact of stakeholders on material issues, and the company’s impact on the stakeholders.
Gap analysis for corporate reporting
Corporate Relations is offering a gap analysis to compare current reporting with the company’s ambition for reporting in the future. This can be an ambition to comply with CSRD/ESRS, report substantially on material topics or create a relevant and transparent storytelling on the value creation of the company.
2025 TREND ARTICLE
Meaningful communications are challenged by compliance-driven annual reports
The largest Danish companies have submitted their first annual report fully complying with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). These reports are quite comprehensive, data-driven and technical when it comes to the integrated sustainability statement. But two questions must be asked: Do the current annual reports communicate in a meaningful way, and do they drive action?
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2024 TREND ARTICLE
More compliance, more data, more transparency, more integration…
Corporate reporting is in a transition phase these years. Companies are to a greater and greater extent taking a more integrated and balanced view on value creation. This is evident when you look at how sustainability has become a built-in element in the annual report. It is included in the key figures, in the business model and strategy, as a significant driver for development and growth, and as a mean to ensure the company’s license to operate.
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2023 TREND ARTICLE
Integrating ESG as a central part of corporate reporting
ESG has become a key element in corporate reporting. It is included in the key figures, in the business model and strategy, as a significant driver for development and growth, and as a mean to secure the company’s license to operate. In essence, ESG affects many of the current trends in corporate reporting.
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2022 TREND ARTICLE
Corporate reporting meets new standards for stakeholder communication
The game of corporate reporting has changed over the last 10 years. Companies are no longer just communicating for compliance purposes to a narrow group of investors and financial stakeholders. Instead, reporting is serving several management and communication purposes, and the target audience is getting still larger. This is evident looking at the annual reports of the companies in the C25 index at Nasdaq Copenhagen.
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Who have we assisted in their reporting?
Corporate Relations has analyzed, project managed, edited, developed, adviced and/or designed the annual report and/or ESG-report for e.g. Aarsleff, AkademikerPension, Astralis, DSV, DS Norden, Energinet, Greenmind, H+H, Lejerbo, LM Wind, Milestone Systems, Novo Nordisk, Odico, Orifarm, Rockwool, Sonion, SparNord and Torm.
