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Supreme Court of South Africa Senior Counsel and former Judge and International Integrated Reporting Council London Chair Emeritus Prof. Mervyn E. King SC
Panel of Judges Chairman Prof. Ho Yew Kee
SEC Chairman Senior Prof. Hareendra Dissabandara
CMA Sri Lanka President Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala
CSE Chairman Dilshan Wirasekera
CSE CEO Rajeeva Bandaranaike
CMA Sri Lanka, the national professional management accounting body in Sri Lanka incorporated by an Act of Parliament, announced the 10th anniversary awards celebrations of the “CMA Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards – 2024”, conducted with Strategic Partner Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hotel Taj Samudra under the distinguished patronage of Supreme Court of South Africa former Judge Prof. Mervyn King, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Senior Prof. Hareendra Dissabandara, CSE Chairman Dilshan Wirasekera, and Panel of Judges Chairman Prof. Ho Yew Kee, with the participation of leading quoted, unquoted, State-owned, and SME sector enterprises that have displayed excellence in Integrated Reporting, showcasing the value they have created to its stakeholders.
The Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards is held annually to promote Sri Lankan companies both listed, unlisted and State-owned institutions/companies to undertake integrated reporting which will be beneficial to investors and stakeholders. The primary purpose of an integrated report is to explain to providers of financial capital how an organisation creates, preserves or erodes value over the short, medium and long term. An integrated report benefits all stakeholders interested in an organisation’s ability to create value over time, including employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, local communities, legislators, regulators and policy-makers.
Since the inception of this competition in the year 2015, an increasing number of companies both quoted, unquoted, State-owned enterprises and SMEs has been witnessed adopting integrated reporting and many of them with a high level of compliance from top conglomerates, banks, finance companies, insurance companies, manufacturing sector, plantation companies, hotel and tourism sector, apparel with over 20 sectors.
The total awards include:
The final judges panel was chaired by Prof. Ho Yew Kee, Deputy Dean of Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies and Professor of Practice Department of Accountancy, College of Business, City University of Hongkong and formerly Prof. of Accountancy, National University of Singapore and Associate Provost Singapore Institute of Technology, supported by local and foreign judges and a senior and experienced Technical Panel.
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