The coalition of businesses, regulators, accountants, stock exchanges and NGOs launched an initiative to revise the standards for international financial reporting in order to prevent a new financial crisis, writes Financial Times. The crisis raises many questions about how to rely on corporate statements. Annual reports and financial statements of banks have been particularly criticized for not having warned investors about the risks that companies take. International Integrated Reporting Committee, using the accumulated discontent as a result of the crisis, wants to make a radical change in financial reporting. The proposed new reporting model will consider not only the company’s financial position, but will also include comments on leadership, corporate policy, payment, and issues related to environmental and social responsibility. Investors focus increasingly on issues such as the impact that could have climate change on the finances of a company. Among participants in the initiative are Nestlé, Aviva, EDF, HSBC, Tata, big four auditing companies PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG, a number of universities, including Harvard Business School, and influential non-governmental organizations such as Global Reporting Initiative and Accounting for Sustainability Initiative.
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The crude oil prices sank sharply in the past day, as the quotations lost nearly 3 per cent. The reason for this was lowering the credit ratings of Greece and Portugal, which led to a serious sell off in global markets. The problems of two European countries came to the U.S., leading to decline in the leading stock indexes in the country yesterday. Exchange in New York on Tuesday with oil contracts in June delivery lost 2.1 percent to 82.44 dollars a barrel. The night of quotations continued to retreat, sinking below 82 dollars a barrel, but this time managed to have stabilized at 82.12 dollars a barrel. The reason for this stabilization has become part of the recovery of lost items of the euro, which rose after a strong decline from yesterday. This morning the single currency is exchanged at 1.3211 dollars per euro after yesterday fell below 1,32 EUR / USD. Yesterday in London, Brent crude from oil fell 1.2 percent to 85.78 dollars a barrel.
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