Sustainability Reporting – The Future of Communication to All Stakeholders
Overview
Satisfying the information requirements of an expanding cohort of influential stakeholders, beyond shareholders and financiers.
If organisations are to prosper in the new reality where ESG/sustainability matters to multiple stakeholders for multiple reasons, they must communicate their total impact (financial, social, environmental) to demonstrate how they create value for all stakeholders and are therefore sustainable.
During this session, we will discuss the following topics:
- Information needs of primary users
- Expanding users of financial statements
- ESG information currently captured in financial statements
- Closing the gap – standalone sustainability reporting
- Available frameworks for sustainability reporting
- Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
- The rise of the ISSB
- ESG case study – path to net zero
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees will learn to consider and appropriately account for:
- Expanding users of financial statements and their increasing information needs
- Sustainability information currently captured in financial statements and what gaps can be closed with standalone sustainability reporting
- Available frameworks for sustainability reporting, including the TCFDs, ISSB and others
- Key issues emanating from the current trend for organisations to commit to a net zero future
Suited to:
Auditors, CFOs, Board Members, Financial Controllers, Finance Teams, Risk Officers, Sustainability Teams, Accountants involved in the preparation of internal and external reports – financial, risk or otherwise
This On Demand includes:
- a recording of the webinar Event which can be viewed multiple times
- a PDF of the presenter’s PowerPoint
- a verbatim Transcript
- any supporting documentation
- a CPD Certificate after successful completion of the Knowledge Quiz
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Sustainability Reporting – The Future of Communication to All StakeholdersVideo
- FeedbackSurvey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Aletta BoshoffBDO Australia
, Partner & National Leader, IFRS Advisory & Corporate Reporting, BDO.
Aletta is an IFRS advisory specialist with over 25 years’ experience in financial reporting and accounting, including IFRS. Aletta has lectured on financial accounting and reporting, auditing and assurance and taxation at various Australian and South African universities. As an Associate Professor, she authored various financial reporting and accounting textbooks. Aletta also spent a number of years as a Project Manager at the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB).
Aletta’s involvement in sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting is a consequence of her focus on an organisation’s ability to create and sustain long-term value in a rapidly changing world, and managing the risks and opportunities associated with these changes. Aletta also puts a heavy emphasis on risk management, because monitoring and mitigating risks across all three dimensions (i.e. environmental, social and governance) is an important priority for any company that is serious about sustainability and ESG.
Ashley Bleeker, Director, Corporate Reporting, BDO.
Ashley focuses on how organisations measure, manage and communicate around sustainability to help them effectively navigate their ESG journey. He uses his strategy skills and sustainability experience to assist clients to develop effective governance frameworks, materiality assessments, ESG strategies/policies and deliver efficient reporting and evaluation tools.
Ashley works with clients to help create and capture value, he makes change happen. He leads businesses to identify growth opportunities, develop effective strategies to capitalise on them and coach leaders to convert into meaningful outcomes.