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  • ESG: A Roadmap to Value Creation With continually evolving frameworks and numerous data points to navigate, the road to incorporating an effective ESG strategy into any business model is a foggy one. But a carefully charted roadmap can reveal a clear path to long-term value creation. Here’s what today’s accounting and finance professionals need to consider if they want to drive their organizations toward sustainability and success.
  • 5 Steps for Establishing ESG Reporting Processes Corporate finance professionals are increasingly being called on to lead companies’ ESG reporting processes. Here’s how to get it right.
  • Why Your New Year’s Resolution Should Be Prioritizing People and Innovation Organizations should enter 2022 with plans to act on the issues that their stakeholders care about.
  • The Ethics of ESG Investing As ESG investing grows in popularity, those looking to invest in purpose-driven organizations should think through the ethical considerations.
  • The ESG Opportunity for CPAs? Assurance ESG assurance offers CPAs a new way to serve clients as well as an important role in making the world a better place.
  • The Business Case for ESG Reporting With social and regulatory momentum building behind environmental, social, and governance reporting, business leaders and their advisors should make meaningful ESG practices an immediate priority.
  • The Expanded 2021 Board Agenda The extreme and unusual pressures of 2020 have necessitated new areas of focus for directors heading into 2021.
  • The Business Case for Expanding ESG Emphasis Why U.S. corporate leaders must champion for change now.
  • Sustainability Reporting Is Gaining Corporate Traction Accounting and finance professionals need to know two main factors seem to be driving the rise in sustainability reporting.
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