Abstract: A software-based tool provides an evaluation of a company's level of reporting about itself. The tool can, in some cases, provide an assessment of a company's communications against a framework that assumes transparent reporting is desirable. A comparison with pre-selected criteria such as a pre-selected peer group of companies or against a set of recommended practices may be provided in some implementations. Based on the results of the analysis, a score can be generated for different areas of the framework. The scores can be summarized in an executive level presentation that may include, in some implementations, benchmark results against the framework and the pre-selected criteria, identification of best practice examples, and recommendations for improvement.