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Metrical Inc

METRICAL INC. is an independent leading Corporate Governance research firm in Japan where Corporate Governance is increasingly recognized as an important element on corporate management in these days. Thus, CG research and solutions would become an essential component of global capital markets and play important to contribute to transparency of the markets and maximize shareholders’ value in Japan. 

METRICAL INC. provides Corporate Governance research and analysis including rating services, and  also offers investment research and IR services with solutions and customized profound research on CG and IR issues.

Human Capital Measures Should Not Be a Case Of "Plowing the Field and Forgetting the Seeds”

Sustainability Reporting Is Expected to Share Valuable Information, Not PR Magazine Type Information

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Need to Think About How to Make the Market a Place Where Young and Mature Generations Want to Invest

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Human Capital Investment Is Also Necessary to Remind Valuations of Growth-Based Corporate Value

Overseas Investors Have Done a Great Deal to Improve the Governance of Japanese Companies, But...

Could the Turnaround Be Due to a Change in Management?

Executive Director, Metrical Inc

Aki Matsumoto

Executive Director

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<li>There is concern that if the statements in Annual Securities Report, a legal document, are not questioned as misstatements, they will be left unwritten with no hope of being realized.</li>
<li>Most companies didn't have human capital policy as of last July. It’s welcome that more companies will take this opportunity to shift to a strategy of adding value through growth-investments.</li>
<li>Companies  are required to answer  the alignment of management and human resource strategies, whether they can reasonably demonstrate path to future growth in corporate value while investing in human capital.</li>
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There is concern that if the statements in Annual Securities Report, a legal document, are not questioned as misstatements, they will be left unwritten with no hope of being realized.
Most companies didn't have human capital policy as of last July. It’s welcome that more companies will take this opportunity to shift to a strategy of adding value through growth-investments.
Companies  are required to answer  the alignment of management and human resource strategies, whether they can reasonably demonstrate path to future growth in corporate value while investing in human capital.


Companies that Adequately Disclose Human Capital Must Be Performing Well on Human Capital Investment

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Companies that Adequately Disclose Human Capital Must Be Performing Well on Human Capital Investment