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Defining Report Quality
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Reporting Principles for Defining Quality This section contains Principles that guide choices on ensuring the quality of reported information, including its proper presentation. Decisions related to the process of preparing information in a report should be consistent with these Principles. All of these Principles are fundamental for eff ective transparency. The quality of information enables stakeholders to make sound and reasonable assessments of performance, and take appropriate action.
 
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Reliability
Definition: Information and processes used in the preparation of a report should be gathered, recorded, compiled, analyzed, and disclosed in a way that could be subject to examination and that establishes the quality and materiality of the information. Explanation: Stak...
Clarity
Definition: Information should be made available in a manner that is understandable and accessible to stakeholders using the report. Explanation: The report should present information in a way that is understandable, accessible, and usable by the organization’s ra...
Balance
Definition: The report should reflect positive and negative aspects of the organization’s performance to enable a reasoned assessment of overall performance. Explanation: The overall presentation of the report’s content should provide an unbiased picture of ...
Comparability
Definition: Issues and information should be selected, compiled, and reported consistently. Reported information should be presented in a manner that enables stakeholders to analyze changes in the organization’s performance over time, and could support analysis relative to other organiz...
Accuracy
Definition: The reported information should be sufficiently accurate and detailed for stakeholders to assess the reporting organization’s performance. Explanation: Responses to economic, environmental, and social topics and Indicators can be expressed in many di...
Timeliness
Definition: Reporting occurs on a regular schedule and information is available in time for stakeholders to make informed decisions. Explanation: The usefulness of information is closely tied to whether the timing of its disclosure to stakeholders enables them to effect...

 
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