Triangulation – Getting a complete picture of your intangibles

Once you have a full set of data about your intangibles, how should you use it? We like to use the image of triangulation seen here as a way of explaining how you can use the three kinds of data that we have described to come up with a unified measurement of your intangibles.

Triangulation is an approach used in a number of disciplines (including surveying and astronomy) using known points to plot out an unknown distance or space. With intangibles, you can use these three kinds of data—investment, assessment and indicators—to plot out the landscape of your intangibles and get comfortable with the future earnings potential of your business. Read more

Corporate Web Disclosure

Great post here from the Q4 blog on examples of companies starting to use web disclosure as a corporate reporting strategy under new guidelines issued by the SEC. It cites a couple examples including BGC Partners and GM:

The lesson from GM is that what’s needed to aid news dissemination is to get people to follow you. This supports the importance of building a subscriber base and transitioning to a web disclosure model over time, while you use notice-and-access releases and other methods to let the market know where you disclose your information, and how they can receive automatic updates.

Here’s my post from awhile back on a sample site built by PWC to show a different approach to corporate reporting. The changes outlined here are a great first step toward the ideal set out by PWC.