Managing the Reporting Supply Chain (RSC)

Since the turn of the new millennium, businesses across the globe have faced a bewildering tide of new regulation. Although much of it is well intentioned, aimed at protecting investors or improving the comparability and timeliness of information, there is no doubt that it has placed a significant extra compliance burden on companies and their hard-pressed finance organizations. In broad terms, the extra regulation manifests itself in the growing complexity of statutory reporting, the increasing breadth of disclosures, and accelerated timescales for reporting to the capital markets.