The winning report would demonstrate the reporting organisation’s integrated thinking, decision-making, actions that focus on creating value and disclosures about matters that substantively affect the business’s ability to create value over the short, medium and long term. The winning report is expected to clearly illustrate how it has applied the seven guiding principles advocated by the International Framework. In addition, the winning report would show how the organisation considers the connectivity and interdependencies between the range of factors or capitals that affect its ability to create value over time. The report should also provide insight into the nature and quality of the firm’s relationships with its key stakeholders and the effects of its output on sustainable development.

AIRA judges will focus on how clearly the organisation describes its integrated approach to value creation, description of its business strategy and outlook, a clear account of inputs and significant outputs and outcomes, description of the relationship between the company and its stakeholders, identification of sustainability issues critical to the business of the company and description of material matters that substantively affect the organisation’s ability to create value over the short, medium and long term.

This category is meant for mid and small-cap companies or SMEs which have adopted integrated reporting. The judging criteria remain the same as for Asia’s Best Integrated Report.

This category is for the public sector companies that publish integrated reports. The judging criteria are the same as Asia’s Best Integrated Report.

Organisations who have produced their first integrated report are invited to submit their entry for this category. The winning report would demonstrate how it has used the concepts of integrated thinking and multi-capitals to communicate its value creation story.

The evaluation criteria for this category is the same as Asia’s Best Integrated Report category.

This category aims to identify best practice in corporate governance disclosures covering but not limited to the Board structure, responsibility, performance and stewardship. The winning report will effectively describe how the board ensures its thinking is centred on value creation for the organisation and also for its key stakeholders, how the board has adopted multi-capitals thinking and how the board uses integrated reporting to show how the organisation’s corporate governance is enhancing value creation over time.

This category aims to identify best practice reporting on integrated thinking. The winning report will provide an outstanding account of the reporting organisation’s multi-capital management approach that enables it to deliver its purpose to the benefit of its key stakeholders overtime. In addition, the report will explain how the organisation has used integrated thinking to create and preserve value and enabled better decision-making based on interconnected, multi-capital information including natural, social and relationship, human, manufactured and intellectual.