Reporting awards

Business in the Community contributes to the judging of the annual Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) Sustainability reporting awards.

The ACCA UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting is the umbrella title for three reporting categories – environmental, social and sustainability. The ACCA’s criteria for the awards are based on three elements:

• Completeness: requires that a report provides a complete view of a company’s operations and impacts
• Credibility: internally–  structures, processes and controls (personnel, information gathering systems, management systems, targets) that enable companies to report are in place – and externally – that the internal systems have been tested and external views are incorporated into the report
• Communication: the extent to which the report communicates to its declared audiences. 

ACCA’s website provides details of the award scheme, access to a web-based newsletter covering sustainability reporting and accounting issues, and a list of other organisations involved in reporting.  

Business in the Community does not run a specific reporting award but to be eligible for its Company of the Year award , which is based on an organisation’s overall impact on society, companies must have taken part and scored highly in the CR Index, which includes a high level of performance reporting in the public domain.