Annual reporting: Best practice in practice

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This engaging course provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in best practice reporting - both in the annual report and the digital expression of it - as well as an update on the regulatory impact of new reporting requirements. The course will also update you on the latest communication approaches to ESG and the relevant reporting frameworks.

Who should attend?

• Anyone involved in the production of their annual report (IROs, company secretaries, group financial controllers etc)
• Service providers involved in the production of annual reports

What will I gain?

• A thorough understanding of the UK Corporate Governance Code
• An overview of how to tell the strategic story of the company
• The latest thinking on best practice integrated reporting
• The latest views on best practice online reporting

When and where is this course running?

Annual reporting: Best practice in practice is running on the below date. If you cannot attend that date or your preferred modality is not yet scheduled, please do 'Register Interest' in the course to be advised of future training dates. 

2025: In-Person, City of London

Thursday, 09 November 2025 (09:30 - 13:00)

Course tutor: Sallie Pilot

Senior Advisor, The Investor Forum

Sallie is an experienced executive director and communications professional with deep expertise in company-investor relations, corporate disclosure and stakeholder engagement. She combines strategic and practical experience with a solid understanding of corporate governance and stewardship, ESG and sustainability, and financial and non-financial reporting.

Currently, Sallie is a senior advisor to The Investor Forum, a not-for-profit, practitioner-led membership organisation, set up by institutional investors in UK Equities focused on positioning stewardship at the heart of investment decision-making. There she leading on an initiative to improve dialogue between Boards and Investors and encourage a more meaningful debate on long term value creation, laying the groundwork for the evolution of the Investor Forum to the Investor and Issuer Forum

She is an Advisory Panel and Stakeholder Insight Group Member of the FRC, Communications Group Member of the Accounting for Sustainability (A4S), and fellow of the Investor Relations Society. Until recently she was an owner and Executive Director of Black Sun plc a Stakeholder Communications Business where she ran a global advisory and research team, of Investor, ESG, Sustainability, and Communications specialists to deliver a more holistic view of corporate performance.

Programme

• Introduction and course objectives
• Telling the strategic story
• Integrated reporting
• Online reporting – an update on trends and new technology
• A best practice review
• Course Summary and Q&A

Register interest