DCC has been announced as the overall winner of the Published Accounts Awards for the fourth year in a row.

The award was in addition to winning the newly introduced Irish companies listed on a foreign market award category.

More than 350 business professionals attended a ceremony at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin on Thursday as a total of 25 public and private companies - including non profit organisations and charities - competed for “excellence in financial reporting”.

Among the category winners was Irish Continental Group, which took the award for small/medium quoted companies, and Dalata Hotel Group, which won the enterprise securities market category in their first year as a quoted company on the Irish Stock Exchange.

CRH was presented with two awards this year. It scooped the winner’s award under the large quoted companies category, whilst also jointly winning the title for the social responsibility reporting award along with Bank of Ireland Group.

Representing organisations in the large not for profit and charities category, Concern took to the winner’s podium with its sixth consecutive title in this category, while IE Domain Registry picked up the award in the small not for profit and charities category.

ESB maintained its leadership position in the statutory unquoted entities category by winning this award for the fifth consecutive year.

The organisation that was presented as the overall winner of the branding, communication and marketing award category, for the presentation and design of its financial accounts reports, was Housing Finance Agency.

The awards are hosted by Chartered Accountants Leinster Society and sponsored by the Irish Stock Exchange.

Speaking at the awards, Chartered Accountants Leinster Society chairman Garrett McCarthy said financial statements “represent a huge commitment from those who prepare them, both financially and from the effort of those concerned in their content, design and preparation”.