This book firmly places the accountant in the position of changemaker. It encapsulates the essential reasons for adopting integrated reporting, explains its application and proposes the next steps of developing the role of Chief Finance Officer to Chief Value Officer. A brand new book, 'Chief Value Officer: Accountants Can Save the Planet' by Mervyn King with Jill Atkins (Greenleaf Publishing, December 2016), radically redefines the role of accountants.... This book is a rich source for the Globethics.net Ethics in Higher Education programme, demonstrating as it does how professions must and can be transformed into professions that create long term value for society. What is true for accountants, is true for engineers, economists, architects, doctors, and so on. - GlobalEthics.net || Book review: Chief Value Officer - Accountants Can Save The Planet Certainly anyone interested in the communication of business information, in the widest sense, or who works in the field professionally, would benefit from reading this book.Currently, too much corporate information is given in coded, and often impenetrable, language that's designed to meet the letter rather than the spirit of regulatory requirements.It would be refreshing if corporate performance were to begin being communicated in a way in which the layman could understand it.Perhaps integrated reporting is a step along the way; and the CVO acronym will one day become as well-known as CFO and COO, on the seas of the Pythons' mythical wide Accountancy. - International Investment - Gerry Brown