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Last updated: October 2024 
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The Toolkit provides companies with step-by-step guidance on how to prepare comprehensive and integrated annual reports. It goes beyond traditional financial reporting and addresses the modern corporate value creation pillars. It permits companies to conduct self-assessments of their annual reporting in the context of the creation pillars at their sole risk and subject to the terms and conditions governing the use of the Toolkit. Any report developed by the user of the Toolkit is based on the information provided to the Toolkit by the user and IFC makes no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy of the report or how it can be used and shall have no liability to the user or any third party using or relying on the terms of such report.

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