The conference is an open forum for listed companies to enhance their knowledge and improve corporate governance, and also to honour the most transparent companies. Specifically, 30 companies have been honoured as the most transparent. HNX also honoured 10 companies that made the greatest progress in information disclosure and transparency in 2014. To identify these companies, HNX accessed 354 listed companies by using information provided by them and the information published on websites and the mass media, as well as financial reports, management reports and information published annually and periodically.