Please see below a selection of some of our key thought leadership reports.
Tomorrow’s balance sheet
February 2011
Integrating strategies for corporate responsibility and evaluating their impact, both socially and environmentally, is becoming increasingly critical to business. This paper summarises the key discussion points from a high level roundtable discussion organised by CIMA and Tomorrow’s Company, where senior business decision makers met with experts in sustainability.
Evolution of corporate sustainability practices
December 2010
This CIMA, AICPA and CICA report examines the state of business sustainability in the UK and North America, through surveys with over 2,000 organisational leaders from their respective memberships, and interviews with sustainability executives from leading organisations.
Reputation: why it matters and how you can manage it
November 2010
Analyses the importance of an organisation’s reputation and how it can be managed. Covers the difference between brand and reputation, how to quantify reputation, and how to integrate reputation in to your strategy.
Breaking glass: strategies for tomorrow's leaders
November 2010
Successful female CIMA business leaders from across the world share their experiences of overcoming barriers and reaching the top.
Accounting trends in a borderless world
November 2010
Assesses the latest trends facing accountants, comparing east and west, and highlights the challenges facing accountants globally. Includes analysis from a global survey of over 5,000 senior finance and non-finance professionals.
Sustainability in emerging markets: lessons from South Africa
October 2010
This background report by Chris Gibbons traces both the emergence of corporate responsibility issues and their impact in emerging markets, and is followed by a feature on one of the countries that has enjoyed a high reputation in relation to sustainability – South Africa.
Incorporating ethics into strategy: developing sustainable business models
June 2010
This new report sets out how finance professionals can shape organisations’ ethical agendas and incorporate ethics into strategy for longterm sustainability.
Executive remuneration schemes and their alignment with business sustainability
May 2010
This report offers principles that should underpin executive remuneration schemes, reassuring stakeholders that performance related pay reinforces behaviour that creates long term sustainability.
Global perspectives on governance: lessons from east and west
April 2010
The core principles of governance are the same globally, but the Asian model places emphasis on trust and relationships. This paper discusses the key differences between the western and Asian approaches, to help business leaders explore the best aspects of both.
Accounting for climate change
February 2010
The finance team is fundamental to every organisation’s climate change strategy. This report explains how management accountants can help organisations to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Enterprise governance: restoring boardroom leadership
January 2010
Failures in corporate leadership contributed heavily to the global financial crisis. This paper sets out how boards can be more effective and challenge management confidently.
Management accounting tools for today and tomorrow
November 2009
The results of a CIMA survey which looked at current and intended usage of management accounting tools and techniques across a variety of organisations.
Improving decisionmaking in organisations: the opportunity to reinvent finance business partners
July 2009
Leading organisations are transforming their finance functions to make them more efficient and better at supporting decision making. This includes developing finance professionals and deploying them as finance business partners around the organisation.
Please also see the related report The opportunity to transform finance.
Return on ideas: better results from finance and marketing working together
April 2009
This report focuses on how marketing creates money. Good marketing ideas can yield substantial value but bad ones can destroy it, so use this paper to find out how to maximise return on ideas and get superior results from finance and marketing.
Fraud risk management: a guide to good practice
January 2009
This paper discusses the key components of an anti fraud strategy and outlines methods for preventing, detecting and responding to fraud.
CIMA Strategic Scorecard™ – boards engaging in strategy
April 2007
The CIMA Strategic Scorecard™ can be used to bring all an organisation’s strategic information together into a summarised consistent format. This enables the board to balance time spent on strategic issues and time spent on governance.
Please also see the executive summary.
Report leadership
2007
This suite of reports contains simple, practical ideas for improving corporate reporting by making both hard copy and online reports more accessible and engaging.