CSR reporting

The accountancy profession, and the role of audit, have responded to an increasing pace of change in our society, economy and capital markets.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board held its first board meeting under its new leadership this week to discuss progress on its provisional standards, with an eye to releasing them in the fall.

The Association of International CPAs has released a guide to how management accountants can help their organizations fulfill the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation has appointed Perella Weinberg Partners partner and CEO Robert K. Steel as its new chair, succeeding former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder and chief executive of Bloomberg LP. Steel previously worked under Bloomberg as deputy mayor.

The former CEO of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board is passing on the chairmanship post to vice-chair Jeffrey Hales.

SASB’s Jean Rogers discusses the board’s coming set of standards.

The International Integrated Reporting Council and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland have published a new report describing how businesses can achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s internal control framework can help provide more assurance to investors about sustainability reporting by companies, according to a new paper.

More than three-quarters of directors at public companies polled by BDO USA expect a tax overhaul to be achieved before the end of Trump’s term in office, but only 22 percent anticipate it will happen before the end of this year.

The United Nations Academic Impact and MLOW provide an example to follow.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has released its 2017 Technical Agenda, listing the priorities and research areas that SASB plans to pursues this year.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new guide to help accountants provide assurance on their corporate clients’ environmental information.

The Institute of Management Accountants has appointed Alex C. Eng, vice president of U.S. corporate finance at EDF Renewable Energy in San Diego, as the new chair of its global board of directors for fiscal year 2017-2018.

A group of more than 100 business leaders and companies are backing the recommendations of a task force on providing a voluntary framework for disclosing climate-related information in financial filings.

Sustainability information is increasingly a part of corporate reporting, but many companies are still relying on boilerplate language in their disclosures, according to a recent report.

The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Chief Financial Officer Leadership Network has produced a new guide to help finance professionals consider social and human capital when making decisions.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has overhauled its board structure, adding a nine-member SASB Standards Board, overseen by the SASB Foundation board of directors.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants welcomed top officials from some of the world’s leading accounting organizations to an event highlighting the growing importance of integrated reporting.

Investors are increasingly relying on nonfinancial performance information, including disclosures by companies about their environmental, social and governance practices, to make their investing decisions, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young.

The new chief of the International Integrated Reporting Council is aiming to build support for integrated reporting in the U.S. as the IIRC begins to gather feedback on how companies are implementing it.