1st Edition
Corporate Narrative Reporting Beyond the Numbers
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Mahmoud Marzouk and Khaled Hussainey
PART 1: NARRATIVE REPORTING: THE STATE OF THE ART
Chapter 1: Corporate Narrative Reporting: Nature and Related Costs
Ahmed Hassanein
Chapter 2: Searching for Regulation in Corporate Narrative Reporting for Charitable Organisations in the Past: An Historical Exploration in Italy and the UK
Karen McBride and Eleonora Maserio
Chapter 3: Forward-Looking Disclosure: Nature, Determinants and Consequences
Ahmed Hassanein and Heba Abou-El-Sood
Chapter 4: Risk Reporting Quality: A Review of Current Practices, Trends and Future Directions for Research
Mahmoud Marzouk, Philip Linsley and Shraddha Verma
Chapter 5: Corporate Governance and Narrative Disclosure Features: A Literature Review
Marwa Soliman and Walid Ben-Amar
Chapter 6: Extended Auditor Reports and Key Audit Matters Disclosure as Complements to Corporate Narrative Reporting
Khairul Ayuni Mohd Kharuddin, Ilias G. Basioudis and Omar Al-Farooque
PART 2: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON NARRATIVE REPORTING
Chapter 7: The Readability of Narrative Disclosures and Earnings Management: Empirical Evidence from the GCC Banking Sector
Mostafa Hassan, Hany Kamel and Bassam Abu-Abbas
Chapter 8: The Determinants of Forward-Looking Narrative Reporting in Annual Reports of Emerging Countries: Evidence from India
Mohamed Nurullah, Nandita Mishra and Faozi A. Almaqtari
Chapter 9: A Comparison of Integrated Reporting Practices in Japan and the UK
Taslima Akhter, Mohammad Badrul Haider and Toshihiko Ishihara
Chapter 10: Disclosure Trends in Intellectual Capital Disclosure: A Focus on the Asian Markets
Chiara Demartini, Sara Trucco and Valentina Beretta
Chapter 11: Do Integrated Financial and Extra-Financial Narrative Disclosures in the Management Commentary Affect Firm Valuation? International Evidence
Muhammad Jahangir Ali, Sudipta Bose and Muhammed Shahin Miah
PART 3: NARRATIVE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
Chapter 12: An Exploratory Study on Climate-related Financial Disclosures: International Evidence
Sudipta Bose and Amir Hossain
Chapter 13: Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility Disclosure: A Literature Review with a Particular Emphasis on China and Social Media Disclosure
Jiaxu Du, Mahmoud Marzouk and Fatima Yusuf
Chapter 14: Accounting for Sustainable Development (ASD) Practices: Theoretical Emergence and Development
Mohamed Saeudy
Chapter 15: The Relationships between Corporate Narrative Reporting Practices and Sustainable Business Models
Mohamed Saeudy
PART 4: NARRATIVE REPORTING IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Chapter 16: Changes in Governance of Corporate Risks: Evidence from British Petroleum’s Response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident through Narrative Reporting
Nader Elsayed
Chapter 17: Examining the Directors’ Remuneration Reports: The case of Thomas Cook
Nader Elsayed
Chapter 18: Digital Narrative Reporting and Legitimation Tactics in Dieselgate Time(s)
Cristina Florio, Giulia Leoni and Alice Francesca Sproviero
Chapter 19: A Content Analysis of Narrative COVID-19 Disclosure in Omani Islamic Banks
Issal Haj-Salem and Khaled Hussainey
Index
Biography
Mahmoud Marzouk, PhD, is a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Leicester, and a Lecturer in Accounting and Auditing at Menoufia University, Egypt (on leave). He completed his master's (MRes) and PhD degrees at the University of York. Marzouk has an extensive teaching and research experience in Egypt and the UK. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of corporate risk disclosure and narrative reporting. Marzouk is a Certified Management and Business Educator and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He has also acted as a reviewer for several journals, and an external examiner and reviewer for a number of UK universities.
Khaled Hussainey is a Professor and Research Lead of Accounting and Financial Management at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Hussainey has a growing research reputation in the field of accounting and finance. He has been featured in the list of "World Ranking of Top 2% Researchers" in the 2021 database (published: 19 October 2021) created by experts at Stanford University, USA. He has published about 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written a number of book chapters and edited a textbook on corporate governance in emerging economies.
