SUSTAINABILITY REPORT CONTENT QUALITY: A STUDY ON BIST SUSTAINABILITY INDEX

Year 2018, Volume: 20 - Special Issue of MODAV 15. International Conference on Accounting, 334 - 357, 27.12.2018

Abdurrahman Gümrah , Şükran Güngör Tanç

Abstract

Sustainability reporting is becoming more widespread in our country as it is in the whole world. Profit or pursuing a very institutions and adopted by the institutions and global basis in sustainability reporting standards issued GRI qualified report on the information the characteristics of balance, accuracy, comparability, clarity, indicate temporal consistency and reliability. The purpose of working in this context is to compare the published sustainability reports with the GRI’s quality criteria and to compare the quality of the content. Sustainability reports of the 10 firms in the Stock Exchange Istanbul Sustainability Index published in 2014 and 2015 have been examined. The information contained in the reports by content analysis method in the study was scored separately in terms of the report qualities of the GRI and the score was calculated in terms of 6 different quality components of each report. The findings and years the company has tried to determine the quality of the content of sustainability reports published in Turkey on the basis of comparison.

Keywords

Sustainability Report, Report Quality, GRI

SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK RAPORLARININ İÇERİK KALİTESİ: BİST SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK ENDEKSİNDE BİR UYGULAMA

Abstract

Sürdürülebilirlik raporlaması, tüm dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemizde de giderek yaygınlaşmaktadır. Kar amacı gütsün yada gütmesin bir çok kurum ve kuruluş tarafından kabul edilmiş ve küresel bazda sürdürülebilirlik raporlaması standartları yayınlayan GRI nitelikli raporda yer alan bilgilerin özelliklerini denge, doğruluk, karşılaştırılabilirlik, netlik, zamansal tutarlılık ve güvenilirlik olarak belirtmektedir. Çalışmanın amacını sürdürülebilirlik raporlarının GRI’nin söz konusu nitelik kriterlerine göre incelenmesi ve içerik kalitesi açısından karşılaştırılması oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada Borsa İstanbul Sürdürülebilirlik Endeksinde yer alan 10 firmanın 2014 ve 2015 yıllarında yayınlamış olduğu sürdürülebilirlik raporları incelenmiştir. Çalışmada içerik analizi yöntemiyle raporlarda yer alan bilgiler GRI’nin söz konusu rapor nitelikleri açısından ayrı ayrı puanlanmış ve her bir raporun 6 ayrı kalite bileşeni açısından puanı hesaplanmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular yıllar bazında karşılaştırılarak Türkiye’de yayınlanan sürdürülebilirlik raporlarının içerik kalitesi tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilirlik Raporlaması, Rapor Kalitesi, GRI

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