Hello everyone!
Welcome to LB Finance Annual Report Micro-site (hereafter referred to as micro-site) which is one of the recently launched AI creations of the Company.
This user guide will provide you with a sufficient understanding about how to navigate each section of the micro-site, for you to obtain the best experience.
The micro-site consists of six pages in which you will find annual report and Company related information for you to make decisions. Let’s find out!
Home page
Annual report theme
Once you login to the micro-site, you will land to the home page which illustrates the theme of our 12th integrated annual report, known as “Crafting Endless Possibilities”. By reading the annual report theme content, you will get to know better what we showcase through our 2023/24 annual report.
Annual results 2023/24
The annual results of LB Finance for 2023/24 have been presented under this section in four formats.
PDF version
PDF version is a primary way of presenting the annual report. You can download this PDF version and open it using a PDF reader.
HTML version
Hypertext markup language version is a newly introduced format of the annual report. Once you click on this, you will be redirected to the web version of our annual report that has been designed under 7 key sections. Each section starts with an attractive breaker, and you can download the content of these sections in PDF format. Notes to the financial statements have been hyperlinked to navigate faster.
Flip book
This is another e-version of the annual report which you can flip from one page to the next, both forward and backward. It gives you the feeling of reading a traditional book, but in digital format.
Annual report video
We have presented you a summarised version of our annual report in a video format. You can play this video and get an overview of how we performed in financial year 2023/24.
Messages from Chairman and Managing Director
The Chairman’s message and the Managing Director’s message can be listened by playing the trilingual audio versions available. Moreover, you can download the PDF versions of respective messages in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages.
Integrated Dashboard
This is probably the best local annual report dashboard which you could ever experience. Our integrated dashboard consists of a financial and non-financial dashboard to meet your information requirements in a graphical format.
Financial dashboard
The financial dashboard provides you with the financial information of LB Finance for 10 years from 2015 (2014/15) to 2024 (2023/24). There are 34 ratios you could graphically illustrate, and they come under 5 ratio categories namely operating results, financial position, investor information, statutory ratios and growth. What you simply should do is, select the ratio category that you want, and then select the items (ratios), period(s) and available chart type(s) from the canvas. Placing the cursor on chart legends will give you a brief explanation on the ratios illustrated.
Non-financial dashboard
The non-financial dashboard provides you with the non-financial information of LB Finance for 5 years from 2020 (2019/20) to 2024 (2023/24). There are 38 measures you could graphically illustrate, and they come under 8 measurement categories namely economic wellbeing, social wellbeing, environment and landscape, business sophistication, infrastructure and quality of services, employee wellbeing, reputation and customers. What you simply should do is, select the measurement category that you want, and then select the items (measurements), period(s) and available chart type(s) from the canvas.
Please note that under both above dashboards, you can illustrate a maximum of 6 canvases at a time.
Sustainability
The sustainability section of the micro-site provides you with key aspects of the Company’s sustainability reporting frameworks and practices.
It starts off with the Board Sustainability Committee Chairperson’s message. You can listen to this by playing the trilingual audio versions available. Moreover, you can download the PDF versions of this message in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages.
Following this, you can study the sustainability value creation model, and ESG governance framework of the Company.
The sustainability reporting frameworks LB Finance adopted in 2023/24 are also available in this section. From the drop down, you can select a sustainability reporting framework which you prefer and explore how it has been applied in the Company. We have applied 6 globally recognised sustainability reporting frameworks during the financial year.
Finally, you can view and download independent practitioner’s assurance reports that the Company obtained in relation to Integrated Reporting, GRI and SASB frameworks.
Stakeholders
The stakeholder section of the micro-site shares some of our stakeholders’ experiences and their perception about the Company. You can play the videos uploaded to this section under 6 stakeholder groups namely customers, employees, business partners, society, shareholders and regulators.
Our Impact
Being a responsible corporate citizen, LB Finance has been conducting a plenty of CSR activities over the past decades. Our impact page has recognised a glimpse of what the Company did in terms of CSR in the recent history under 6 pillars namely access to education, knowledge sharing, community wellbeing, building partnerships, transformative & business linked CSR, and protecting environment. By scrolling down, you can see the projects which were conducted, number of beneficiaries associated, and employee hours utilised for each of these projects under this section.
Connect
The connect section primarily links you with LB sustainability Facebook page from which you could get sustainability and annual report related information. This part of the connect section gets updated simultaneously with the information fed to the LB sustainability Facebook page. In addition, the connect section provides contact us details of LB Finance for you to make annual report and sustainability related inquiries.
Smart AI Chatbot
We have introduced a smart AI chatbot accompanied by our LB mascot that has state of the art features compared to a usual AI chatbot. Our AI chatbot can recognise human voice so that you can even speak up your information requests to the mic in addition to typing them in the provided chat area. You will get the responses in text format to which you can also listen by clicking on the “Read me” option given. There are two areas available in the smart AI chatbot namely the chart area and info area. In the chart area, you can request annual report related charts which you prefer to be depicted so that they will be drawn for you instantly. Conversely, in the info area, you can make any other annual report related information request that do not involve charts.
Speaker
The speaker on bottom left-hand corner of the micro-site can be used to mute and unmute the background ballerina melody.
Language Preference
The primary contents of our micro-site have been provided in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages to reach out any local audience. Simply you should select the preferred language from the language preference available on top right-hand corner.
Accessibility Tools
Enhance your browsing experience with our accessibility tools. Use the screen reader to hear selected content, adjust the text size with the font size options, customize spacing and alignment to suit your needs, or modify the site's colour and contrast settings for better readability. Choose from various options like grayscale, high contrast, negative contrast, and brightness adjustments to create a viewing experience that works best for you. If needed, you can easily reset everything back to the default settings.
