Procurement Contract: Research Services— Analysing trends in annual report language and content
Deadline: 24 August 2023 (12:00) BST
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) regulates auditors, accountants and actuaries and sets the UK's Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. We seek to promote transparency and integrity in business; our work is aimed at investors and others who rely on company accounts, audit, and high-quality risk management. As the Competent Authority for audit in the UK, the FRC sets auditing and ethical standards and monitors and enforces audit quality.
The FRC Lab is commisioning research which will add to the understanding of recent trends in annual reports and how these impact the length and usefulness of reporting.
This research will cover the annual reporting of all FTSE 350 listed companies; we expect trends to identified, with respect to the research questions above, based on at least five years of past reporting (2017 to 2021).