Press/Media: Research
CFIE-FRSE cuts through hard-to-understand financial reports, to help investors and regulators.
We have developed an app to dissect and analyse narrative aspects of companies’ annual reports, documents aimed at shareholders, but also used by other stakeholders, including financial analysts, prospective investors, journalists and regulators.
https://github.com/drelhaj/CFIE-FRSE
| Title | New app decrypts annual reports |
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| Degree of recognition | International |
| Media name/outlet | Swiss Business 24 |
| Primary Media type | Web |
| Country/Territory | Switzerland |
| Date | 20/08/19 |
| Description | The "CFIE-FRSE" app helps investors and regulators fight their way through complicated financial reports. The software was developed by researchers at Lancaster University. The application is called "Corporate Financial Information Environment - Final Report Structure Extractor" and distinguishes long-term financial strength from short-term profits. |
| Persons | Mo El-Haj |
| Title | Lancaster University brings clarity to 'impossible to read' company reports |
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| Degree of recognition | National |
| Media name/outlet | Lancashire Business View |
| Primary Media type | Web |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| Date | 20/08/19 |
| Description | New software from Lancaster University cuts through hard-to-understand financial reports, to help investors and regulators. Researchers have developed an app to dissect and analyse narrative aspects of companies’ annual reports, documents aimed at shareholders, but also used by other stakeholders, including financial analysts, prospective investors, journalists and regulators. |
| Persons | Mo El-Haj |
| Title | University launches app to ‘translate’ annual report information |
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| Degree of recognition | International |
| Media name/outlet | Accountancy Daily |
| Primary Media type | Web |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| Date | 16/08/19 |
| Description | A team of academics at Lancaster University has developed an app to help investors and regulators make sense of hard-to-understand financial reports, after finding that while annual reports have doubled in length in the last decade, there has been no improvement in their readability score. |
| Producer/Author | Pat Sweet |
| Persons | Mo El-Haj |
| Title | Company annual reports are almost impossible to read – Lancaster University programme brings clarity |
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| Degree of recognition | International |
| Media name/outlet | Lancaster University Press |
| Primary Media type | Web |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| Date | 14/08/19 |
| Description | New software from Lancaster University cuts through hard-to-understand financial reports, to help investors and regulators. Researchers have developed an app to dissect and analyse narrative aspects of companies’ annual reports, documents aimed at shareholders, but also used by other stakeholders, including financial analysts, prospective investors, journalists and regulators. |
| Persons | Mo El-Haj |