For the sixth time since 2003 we looked at the quality of annual reports online of big cap European and US companies. Since 2003 we analyse the companies of the following indices DAX/MDAX (Germany), Dow (USA), ATX (Austria), EuroStoxx and SMI (Switzerland). Since 2005 we cover FTSE-100 (UK) and AEX/AMX (The Netherlands). This year we [...]
Archive for August, 2009
24 Aug
Wise man’s simple VPN
Virtual Privat Networks (VPN) are very useful. VPNs are great. They enable “road-warriors” to use your secured network services. But from a server and network administrators point of view I tell you: “Forget all those bloated VPN solutions“. Problems with well known solutions Every commercial solution I have stumbled upon in the Internet, works the [...]
20 Aug
Radley Yeldar and SmithsRatings: Neverending story on Rankings
I think it’s a bad human habit to rank and order everything. But obviously there is a need for this: Producers of annual reports need to reason and measure their work to justify their budgets. Perfect ingredients for intransparency and dilettantism. Worst for me are those taking an entry fee to rank a report and [...]
11 Aug
Survey of CSR Reports Online
For the first time we made a benchmark survey on presentation of yearly published CSR reports in Germany. Out of 30 DAX companies 26 (87%) published a CSR report 2008. Analogue to our yearly survey on online annual reports we classified into 3 main categories: PDF, JPG-show or full HTML report: PDF: The report is [...]
