A research on local governments' view on integrated reporting in Turkey and a model proposal

Municipalities are expected to be more transparent, accountable, understandable and to have stronger communication channels with stakeholders. Corporate reports are the tools that establish strong dialogs with stakeholders. Integrated Reports, which provide the opportunity to deliver both financial and non-financial information in a single report, is one of the innovative corporate reporting model. The purpose of this study is to propose an "Integrated Reporting Model" applicable by local governments in Turkey and to make "Integrated Performance Measurements". In line with the purpose of the study, annual reports published by 29 Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey between 2018-2020 were examined, the social data obtained from that reports were digitized with the "content analysis" method, and a model proposal was constituted and performance measurement was together with the opinions of 12 experts, by using the "analytical hierarchy process" technique of "multi-criteria decision making" methods. The result of the analysis indicate that integrated reporting is an applicable reporting model for Municipalities and current reporting models of them close to integrated reporting in terms of their contents but different by their structures, and frameworks.