This course will enable you to
- Recognise the significance of ESG and how it's being regulated
- Understand how ESG compliance impacts the role of accountants
- Discuss global frameworks and how they have progressed
- Outline the risks associated with non-compliance and how to mitigate those
- List the key steps involved in carrying out an ESG audit
- Integrate ESG into your work using some simple techniques and processes
About the course
As global awareness of sustainability and climate-related issues grows, accountants may find themselves increasingly tasked with tackling compliance and reporting related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
This course explores the impact of ESG regulation on businesses and the difficulties arising from the inconsistency of ESG regulation at local and international levels. It also looks at the role of accountants in implementing compliance and adapting your core skills to analyse ESG data, identify financial risk and help organisations to meet reporting requirements.
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Contents
- ESG compliance - an overview
- Accountants and ESG
- The origins of ESG compliance
- Defining ESG
- International standards
- Green finance explained
- ESG and professional services
- ESG, financial crime and greenwashing
- Emerging trends and challenges
- The impact on accountants
- The global ESG regulatory landscape
- The main global framework
- The need for global compliance
- Regional overview: USA
- Regional overview: EU
- Regional overview: UK
- Is ESG compliance mandatory?
- Regional overview: APAC
- Be ready for regulation
- Managing ESG risks
- The low-down on ESG risks
- Industry-specific ESG risks
- ESG risks and accounting
- Data sources for ESG risk assessment
- Leveraging technology
- Dealing with data
- Supply chain risks
- Supply chain compliance
- Creating an ESG culture
- Skill sets for ESG compliance officers
- Do we need ESG experts?
- Communication to collaborate
- Integrating ESG into existing frameworks
- Ethics and good business sense
- What does the future hold for ESG?
- Useful resources
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