The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the UK’s Human Capital was worth £16,686 billion in 2009; more than two-and-a-half times as much as the net worth of our combined financial and non-financial assets (£6.669 billion, according to the Blue Book). This is amazing.

With the launch of Accounting for People 2.0, we’ve been busy scouring the web for the best articles, essays and ideas on human resource accounting. So far, so good. Human resource accounting; human asset reporting; human capital reporting;  extended narrative reporting; intangible asset reporting; people reporting – you can pick your term.

Two days ago the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills launched a consultation on The Future of Narrative Reporting.

So far, the media have been fairly quiet about this. The few publications who’ve reported it either simply quote/summarise the COI press release, or else use Directors’ Pay as a hook: see, for example, Helen Gilbert’s article in Personnel Today, and the Labour and Capital blog by Tom Powdrill, of PIRC. Maybe everyone else is studying the consultation document carefully, like we are, before commenting publicly.

Important as Directors’ pay is, we hope that there will be more than that involved in the responses to the consultation, and in the Coalition Government’s commitment to reinstate the Operating and Financial Review.

4th March 2010 De Vere Hotel, free full-day seminar hosted by sister company People Resolutions featuring expert speakers in conflict prevention and management. Explore the types of conflict that arise; the methods available to resolve them; and the dangers of not doing so!

HPA hosts a human capital breakfast briefing on Wed 10th February near Tower Hill, London, with two morning sessions to choose from (8:45am and 11.00am start). Dr Michael Reddy will be facilitating two-way exchange around key themes throughout the morning, with three workstreams to choose from:

E=mc²: How to Square the Equality Bill Against the Bottom Line

On Wednesday January 27th, 15:00 GMT

An HCD Webinar in Association with
Human Potential Accounting and People Resolutions.

HubCap's registered-user only webinar series kicks off with 'Equality in the Workplace' in January 2010. Would you like to contribute? Do you have anything to share with the community? Or do you just want to know what's going on? This one will be free, so feel free to join in any way you can.

It's amazing the nuggets of gold that come out when people talk about their personal views and passions. You now have a document viewer as the central lens on all your library documents and you already have a fledgling business network to connect with your peers worldwide. Next up?