The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group announced that it will host a symposium at the European Accounting Association’s annual congress in Prague on 29 May 2026 on whether more structured and comparable corporate information for start-ups and scale-ups can help address financing constraints for European SMEs. The session will examine how summarised disclosures could support investment decisions and strengthen Europe’s risk capital markets while keeping reporting proportionate for smaller companies. The discussion follows a request from the European Commission for EFRAG to assess a voluntary template for key information disclosures for start-ups and scale-ups. Against a backdrop of EU concerns about competitiveness and still-shallow market-based funding for high-growth firms, the symposium will explore whether better disclosure can improve transparency, reduce information asymmetries and channel savings toward innovative companies, drawing also on lessons from EFRAG’s work on the voluntary sustainability reporting standard for SMEs.
European Financial Reporting Advisory Group2026-05-27
European Financial Reporting Advisory Group to host symposium on whether standardised start-up information can improve SME financing
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group will host a symposium at the European Accounting Association’s 2026 congress in Prague on whether more structured, comparable corporate information for start-ups and scale-ups can ease financing constraints for European SMEs. Requested by the European Commission, the event will examine a voluntary key information disclosure template and how proportionate summarised reporting could improve transparency, support investment decisions and strengthen Europe’s risk capital markets, drawing on EFRAG’s work on a voluntary sustainability reporting standard for SMEs.