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ADVANCED CORPORATE REPORTING CASE STUDY OF BRITTLE LTD As part of Brittle Ltd’s sustainability goals, the firm has adopted the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework as its guideline for preparing its sustainability reports. In addition to this, two members of the accounting department were sent for training programmes geared towards the provision of knowledge about the GRI Framework and its proper implementation as a reportingprocess. Furthermore, the firm has provided more logistics and resources to the accounting department to help equip them in implementing the GRI Framework. However, the accounting system of the firm has not been modified in any way. At the end of the reporting period 30 June 2021, Brittle Ltd released its first sustainability report with disclosures on economic, environmental, and social issues. Under environmental and social disclosures, Brittle presented a detailed discussion on activities and expenditures that reflected favourably on the firm. However, less detailed discussions were made on issues that related to the operations of the firms and had less favourable outcome for the firm. For instance, Brittle Ltd experienced a security breach with regards to its information system and preliminary assessment suggested that information about some key clientele had been compromised. Although the report highlighted this event, detailed elements of the breach had been omitted. Required: With reference to the case of Brittle Ltd, provide appropriate responses to the following questions: A. (1) Present a critical analysis of Brittle Ltd’s adoption of the GRI Framework and explain at least three possible reasons why the firm made this decision. (ii) Analysis Brittle Ltd’s disclosure on customer privacy and highlight which principle(s) ofthe GRI might have been breached.