The Chief Value Officer

Accountants Can Save the Planet

Mervyn King and Jill Atkins

Foreword by KOUSHIK CHATTERJEE

Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer
Member of the Board, Tata Steel Limited

Integrated Reporting is having a profound impact on corporate thinking

and reporting. Value is being assessed on the basis of the sources of value
creation used by an organisation and not through a financial lens alone. In
Chief Value Officer: Accountants Can Save the Planet M , ervyn King, a
global corporate governance and reporting leader, challenges some of the
systemic issues preventing organisations from managing in an integrated
value-creation way.

The shareholder-centric governance model, currently favoured by most

Contents companies, will not result in changes to corporate behaviour that can
Prologue
create value in a sustainable manner. The book, therefore, firmly places the
Chapter 1: History of the Limited Liability
Company accountant in the position of changemaker – the finance professional
Chapter 2: The Ownerless Company today should be more of a value officer than a financial officer.
Chapter 3: The Duties of a Director Consequently, the Chief Finance Officer should be known as the Chief
Chapter 4: The Exclusive and the Inclusive Value Officer.
Approach to Governance
Chapter 5: From Financial Reporting to
Corporate Reporting This book explains this new approach. It encapsulates the essential reasons
Chapter 6: Sustainability Reporting and the for adopting integrated reporting, explains its application to date and
Establishment of the IIRC proposes the next steps needed to achieve change that will improve
Chapter 7: Shifts in the Corporate World business, social and environmental sustainability.
Chapter 8: Integrated Thinking and the
Integrated Report
Chapter 9: The New Order Order Form
Chapter 10: Value Creation
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Chapter 11: The Benefits of IR
Chapter 12: The Role of Accountants in Creating DEPARTMENT
Value
Chapter 13: The Chief Value Officer INSTITUTE
Chapter 14: The Training of Accountants
Annex 1: The International Integrated ADDRESS
Reporting Council Framework
Annex 2: The Crown Estate TOWN
Annex 3: The Standard Bank of South Africa POSTCODE COUNTRY
Annex 4: The General Electric Company
Annex 5: The Chartered Institute of Public TELEPHONE FAX
Relations
Annex 6: Sanford EMAIL
Annex 7: Sun International
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