Chartered accountants’ apex body ICAI has come out with a detailed advisory on financial reporting and audit of financial statements for the current financial year in the wake of businesses being impacted by coronavirus outbreak. Business activities have been disrupted by the outbreak and the country is also under a 21-day lockdown to curb spreading
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance published new guidance to provide clarity regarding its view on disclosure and other securities law obligations during the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The SEC said it’s “providing this guidance as companies prepare disclosure documents during this uncertain time. The Commission and the staff have also provided targeted regulatory
The 2020s have been called ‘the decade of action’ for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if they are to be achieved by the deadline of 2030. ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) highlights in a new report Auditing the SDGs: Progress to 2030 the importance of measuring progress given the scale of the challenges
IPIECA, the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) today released the new edition of the Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry, which marks over fifteen years of collaboration between the member companies across the three leading industry associations. “The fourth edition of the Sustainability Reporting Guidance provides oil and gas companies with a clear framework to demonstrate their important role in the energy transition by reporting on how they
Deeper engagement with capital markets is helping GRI reach companies across region. An engagement program with stock exchanges and regulators in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is enabling GRI to support more listed companies to improve how they report on their sustainability impacts. The program, with support from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has been
Following the launch of the EU Environmental Reporting Handbook, CDSB’s project manager, Gemma Clements, shares four essential tips on how to disclose environmental information in line with reporting requirements in Europe. The beginning of 2020 has seen a surge of activity around environmental disclosures, especially within the EU. On the 28 January Vice President Dombrovskis announced that later this year he will present a renewed sustainable finance strategy for
Review of BEPS sees groups around the world push for public reporting The response to the OECD’s consultation on updating their tax reporting framework has been supportive of adding public disclosure of country-by-country corporate tax payments. About 25% of the responses urged the OECD to align with GRI’s recently launched Tax Standard. OECD’s Base Erosion
The opportunity has come to establish independent, rigorous global standards for nonfinancial information for companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance as well as their external impact. We cannot lose this opportunity lest it never come again. As I wrote in this column in May 2016 “we won’t have the capital markets we need today to create a
The Chartered Governance Institute and the International Integrated Reporting Council have released an essential practitioner’s guide to integrated reporting for Chartered Secretaries and Chartered Governance Professionals. ‘An Overview of integrated reporting for Chartered Secretaries and Chartered Governance Professionals’, provides an overview of integrated reporting and integrated thinking and the role its members can play in embedding them
References to concepts like ESG, impact investing, social responsibility, carbon footprint initiatives, sustainable investing, climate change, green or sustainable funds and other related concepts are at every turn now in the business media. Collectively, these can be referred to as “do good” precepts. This is not a new development. It’s been ongoing for the past
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