In contrast to the poor results in country-by-country reporting with respect to their international activities, companies disclose considerable data on their domestic operations. Two companies, Exxon Mobil and 3M achieved 100 per cent, which means that they disclose all recommended data for their US operations. Disappointingly however, 12 companies, among them six Europeans, received a zero score for disclosure with respect to their domestic operations. If companies can achieve good levels of disclosure with respect to their domestic activities (note that Chinese companies performed relatively well in reporting on domestic operations), it should be possible for them to do the same for overseas operations.
Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World’s Largest Companies
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