The comprehensive, user-friendly guide to ensure your 2024 annual report is compliant 

For nearly 20 years, UK-incorporated, main market listed companies have relied on us to help them meet their annual reporting requirements. Company secretarial and governance professionals at over 100 main market listed companies have used our comprehensive Annual Reporting Handbook to help them navigate annual reporting law, regulation and best practice, all delivered in a user-friendly format. The 2024/25 edition is now available.

Some of the key changes and issues covered this year:

• Regulatory expectations - FRC focus areas and disclosure expectations for reporting in 24/25, with a continued emphasis on risks and uncertainties.
• Climate and nature – Reminder of the opportunities to enhance TCFD-reporting ahead of the introduction of the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, and to take account of the latest TNFD guidance.
• Ethnic diversity - Reminder for FTSE 350 listed companies to report progress made over the past 12 months against voluntary senior management ethnic diversity targets as expected by the Parker Review.
• Governance – Opportunities to align reporting, on a voluntary basis, to the expectations of the 2024 version of the FRC's UK Corporate Governance Code. 
• Reform of UK Listing Rules – Updated regulatory references and minor changes to reporting requirements as a result of the new lighter touch listing regime, including for listed companies with a controlling shareholder.
• Remuneration – The shift in investor scrutiny of executive pay, recognising a more flexible and less prescriptive approach to structuring remuneration and in a manner that supports business needs and enhances competitiveness.
• Annual Report publication and the AGM – New regulatory observations around structured reporting, publishing and filing, together with considerations for the 2025 AGM, including the increasing uptake of the pre-emption disapplication flexibilities.
• Streamlining – Identification of areas of potential future reporting reform.

How can the Annual Reporting Handbook help you?

Drafted from the perspective of a UK-incorporated main market company with equity shares listed in the equity shares (commercial companies) category of the Official List and having a 31 December 2024 financial year-end, the Handbook:

• summarises the UK reporting rules with which you must comply this year and highlights the areas on which investors are likely to focus their attention;
• provides assurance to reporting teams and ultimately company boards that all relevant reporting requirements have been addressed; and
• draws attention to additional best practice reports and guidance that will help enhance the quality of a listed company’s reporting.

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