Annual Reporting in 2019/20: From Intent to Action

This report by EY highlights how FTSE 350 companies complied with the first cycle of the UK Corporate Governance Code and the Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018. It also discusses how companies can move their reporting to demonstrating the actions taken and the outcomes delivered for their stakeholders.

Key points include:

• Only 12 percent of companies report on the ethnic diversity of their boards
• 45 percent of companies did not provide examples or case studies to illustrate how stakeholder considerations had affected the decisions made by their boards