This title was first published in 2002: This text is concerned with the role of corporate reporting in UK public limited companies. The book is essentially explorative. The author is concerned with looking at different aspects of the changes in corporate reporting and taking different perspectives in the development of the argument.

1: The Function of Corporate Reporting; 2: Measuring and Reporting Performance; 3: Accounting for Social and Environmental Performance; 4: Semiology and Statistics: A Methodology for Analysis; 5: The Environmental Discourse: the Quantitative Evidence; 6: The Environmental Discourse: the Qualitative Evidence; 7: Relating Financial and Environmental Performance: Interpretation of the Evidence; 8: The Future Focus of Reporting: Evidence from Semiotic Analysis; 9: The Semiology of External Reporting: an Evaluation of the Evidence; 10: The Future of Corporate Reporting