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Sustainability Accounting Overview 2 Credits

Dec 01, 2020, 03:00 PM ET

Sustainability Accounting Overview 2 Credits

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Dec 01, 2020, 03:00 PM ET

Learning Objective

  • To explain the origins of Sustainability Accounting and the major actors today.
  • To demonstrate how sustainability metrics can be presented in financial statements.
  • To find the sector-specific metrics for a client.
  • To integrate sustainability management into annual financial and public reporting.

Course Overview

Sustainability Accounting is now a recognized professional skill of increasing importance in larger organizations. It is the process of finding, measuring and managing the material metrics for sustainable performance and risk management. The goal is to bring key metrics into regular financial statements for leaders to access key decision drivers and act on them.

Identifying the importance of the Sustainability Accounting, recognized institutions have taken following steps:

  • Over 90% of the Fortune 500 corporations are using sustainability accounting now.
  • The Big 4 accounting firms have recently (Oct 2020) announced a joint program to develop uniform sustainability accounting standards. They are following the path of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) which has already published detailed metrics for 77 industry sectors.
  • The AICPA has created a standard for Attestation Engagements for Sustainability Reporting.
  • The International Federation of Accountants has published detailed implementation guidance (IFAC 2015: Sustainability Framework 2.0: Professional Accountants as Integrators).

This webinar covers following key topics: 

  • The origins of Sustainability Accounting
  • The published guidance from accounting associations
  • The roles of the major actors
  • A practical implementation approach. 

Upon completion attendees will know how to help your organization and clients improve their performance and reduce risk and be a sustainability leader.

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Credits

2

Course Level

Basic

Instructional Method

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Group Internet Based

Pre-requisites

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Advance Preparation

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About Instructor

Burt Hamner
Burt Hamner

President, Cleantech Mentor LLC

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Burt Hamner is a pioneer in Sustainability Accounting (SA). In 1993 he wrote the first Environmental Management Accounting Guidelines for the Washington Department of Ecology. These were and are fundamental in the development of SA into its new dimensions of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues.   Since 1995 he has trained over 5000 business managers in 20 countries how to implement sustainability tools and practices to increase profits and decrease risk. Burt has received dozens of awards as a professional speaker and a “Chasing Genius” Award from the National Geographic Society.   He developed this course for the Washington Society of CPAs and it has received 4.99/5 stars from 384 participants. He has earned the Credential in “Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting” from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.

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