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06/2011
Thomas Rosenmayr

Trends in presenting annual reports online.

We see the market for online reports maturing in terms of vendors, tools and interactive options. Within HTML reports, interactivity stays the main driver. There are still huge regional differences and ignorance in terms of what is an online report. Whether an investment into a fully-fledged online report makes sense or not, largely depends on a companies communication mix. But I am convinced that we will see a further rise in online reporting, as the decline of print runs will continue to shift interest into online. And mobile devices like iPads will play an increase role.

12/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

Sustainability vs. Financial Reporting.

At the beginning of October I wrote a blog entry on how DAX 30 companies are reporting about their CSR activities in the web. One thing I mentioned were the differences in how the activities are presented online. Quite a few DAX companies are offering a sustainability portal, which is updated regularly by editing the content. The consequence is that afterwards the previous content is not longer available on the website.

11/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

Annual reports for iPhones & iPads: hype or good idea?

There is currently a lot of discussion in the corporate reporting community – some might call it hype – about companies creating iPhone and iPad apps for their annual reports and other documents. In this post, I am going to try to frame the debate in terms of the pros and cons from an investor or analyst’s perspective because that’s ultimately who is supposed to use the apps. By doing so, I hope to bring some rational discussion to a topic that is often charged with all the emotion that Apple tends to evoke with its technologies.

10/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

Online Annual Reports: Skip converting Notes section into HTML?

This years Nexxar research showed a remarkable development in online corporate reporting in the UK and US: A strong rise of HTML reports that incorporate the Notes section just as PDF. Is this a major shift in the perception of online reporting? Together with an increasing use of mulitmedia, companies seem to focus more on telling stories than reporting their business performance. A fool who thinks bad figures in economic difficult times might be the reason!

10/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

How sustainable are DAX 30 companies?

Sustainable development seems to be one major key success factor for companies in the (near) future. This is the reason, why sustainability gets more and more attention from all kind of stakeholders, especially customers and investors.

09/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

Do you like #socialmedia and #ir? If yes, RT that to your friends and followers!

Social media has been one of the most dynamic trends in recent years, whereas the use of social media in IR is just at the beginning of its development. The main question is: how essential is it to share your IR relevant news via social media?

08/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

Regional differences in Online Corporate Reporting.

In the next few days we will publish this years research on the state of online corporate reporting. Beforehand I would like to use this Blog to highlight one of the most interesting findings of the work, that we did on searching through corporate reporting websistes of 508 big cap companies in North America and Europe.

07/2010
Thomas Rosenmayr

How Dow Jones 30 companies do Online Annual Reports.

Being one of the early adopters of HTML for annual reporting, companies listed in the Dow 30 lost track with what media is best to use online. We saw years where image based picture shows (JPG), PDF and HTML reports where taking about the same portion of the cake. Now the tide seems has turned in favour of HTML conversions of financial documents. Although the USA still lacks behind other markets like the UK or Germany you might think: better late than never. But there is an important downer of this developement.