From top accounting technologies to digital currencies, Liu Qin, professor and vice-president of the Shanghai National Accounting Institute, reveals recent trends among China’s accounting practitioners.
The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and the Global Accounting Alliance sent letters supporting the IFRS Foundation’s proposal to create a new sustainability reporting standards board.
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will form a unified organisation led by current SASB CEO Janine Guillot by mid-2021.
Traditional accounting numbers and metrics fall short in measuring value created for all stakeholders. Here’s a framework that can help organisations better articulate the purpose and value of their activities.
The UK government issued a set of equivalence decisions across several financial services areas for firms from EU and European Economic Area states and set out finance initiatives for greening the economy.
The Institute of International Finance and the UN Environment Programme published a how-to guide to help financial institutions produce more uniform and comprehensive disclosures on climate risks.
A set of universal environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measures and disclosures released by the World Economic Forum is designed to help companies report nonfinancial disclosures.