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The board is setting up a new working group of representatives from various jurisdictions around the world, including the SEC.

Ernst & Young's Marc Siegel dives into the recent SEC proposals around climate disclosures amid the broader context of the rise of ESG reporting.

The profession is turning its attention increasingly toward environmental matters to help clients adjust to new demands for climate and sustainability reporting.

Deloitte plans to bolster its advisory, assurance, audit, consulting, finance and tax services and equip its 345,000 professionals with related skills.

The Big Four firm is adjusting to a new, tougher regulatory environment, even as it rolls out its latest auditing technology.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants' new report, 'Accounting for a better world,' highlighted seven areas in which accounting can build positive, lasting change across the business world and beyond.

The CSO is the hot new spot in the C-suite, but there’s little consensus over the job description, qualifications or even the goals.

Kurt Sartorius will paddle the Rio Madre to survey deforestation and bring awareness to what the profession can do to fight climate change.

The IFRS Foundation is teaming up with CPA Canada to set up a Montreal center for the new board, in addition to a location in Frankfurt, Germany.

The West Virginia senator is calling on the commission to reconsider a plan to require companies to disclose information about their greenhouse gas pollution.

The board unveiled two proposed standards for general sustainability-related and specific climate-related disclosure requirements.

The commission’s proposed rule would involve accountants and auditors more heavily in their clients’ efforts to provide assurance on sustainability reporting.

Biden’s 10-year outlook still would rack up $14.4 trillion in deficits — most of it on autopilot — even after accounting for that $1 trillion in net deficit cuts from new policies like tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.

The board issued an accounting standards update aimed at better aligning hedge accounting with an organization’s risk management strategies.

The competing sustainability standard-setters have come under increasing pressure in recent years to do more to align their sometimes conflicting standards.

KPMG International is moving on more environmental, social and governance goals one year into the initiative's launch.

A bad CDP hearing; a key point when giving stock; fat o’ the land; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The commission issued a 500-plus-page proposed rule Monday that would mandate corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.

The commission unveiled an eagerly awaited proposed rule on climate risk disclosures that public companies would need to start including in their registration statements and periodic reports.

Companies will need to reveal detailed information about their greenhouse gas pollution under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plan, marking a major shift in how corporations must show they are dealing with climate change.