ISLAMABAD, July 22: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has developed a corporate scorecard to assist local and international institutional investors in evaluating the performance of companies in specified areas against targeted benchmarks.

An official announcement issued here on Friday said the draft scorecard has been prepared in consultation with certain local institutional investors. It covers the financial outlook, internal business outlook, customer perspective, innovation and learning perspective, and corporate governance perspective of a company.

The financial health of the company is assessed primarily by looking at the past financial performance of the company.