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Sustainability assurance: understanding ISSA 5000
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- 10 Mar 2025
It is more important than ever to ensure that finance professionals are faithfully monitoring company sustainability assurance and reporting so that stakeholders and governments can judge businesses’ ability to reach their UN Sustainability Goals, Malcolm Bacchus, ICAEW President, told a gathering of accountants this week.
How AI can improve sustainability assurance
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- 05 Mar 2025
Case study: ekointelligence is a generative AI tool, developed in part by chartered accountants, that can digest and review all environmental statements published by an organisation.
Euro ‘omnibus’ proposal reveals softer CSRD and CSDDD
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- 04 Mar 2025
The European Commission’s omnibus proposal waters down European sustainability reporting and assurance rules within CSRD, CSDDD and CBAM.
Why nature matters to accountants: insights from a CFO
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- 03 Mar 2025
Coinciding with World Wildlife Day 2025 on 3 March, the Global Accounting Alliance has published a new guide to help accountants integrate nature-related issues into their work. ICAEW speaks to one of the CFOs who contributed.
Key questions to align transition and financial planning
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- 26 Feb 2025
A new paper from A4S and ICAEW outlines how organisations can get started when it comes to aligning financial planning and transition planning.
How to build the case for sustainability service lines
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- 17 Feb 2025
This second unit in ICAEW’s new, free e-learning programme focuses on building the business case for sustainability, including for practices considering new ESG service lines.
How Forvis Mazars got started with Science-Based Targets
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- 13 Feb 2025
Senior management buy-in is an essential starting point for embarking on a net-zero pathway validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, according to the firm.
Moves to shake up EU laws and green finance alliance threaten transition
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- 12 Feb 2025
Controversy has erupted over plans to merge the three main laws behind Europe’s Green Deal and to reinvent one of the world’s biggest environmental, social and governance investment alliances – the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).
FRC sets out sustainability assurance market recommendations
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- 10 Feb 2025
A clear UK policy framework, a unified regulatory regime and improved information on the quality of sustainability assurance among the actions outlined by the regulator.
Sustainability reporting: building trust and credibility
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- 07 Feb 2025
The potential for an internationally agreed baseline on which to build the sustainability reporting ecosystem is within reach, says IAASB Chair Tom Seidenstein, but collaboration is key.
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