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2023 AICPA & CIMA ESG and Sustainability Conference


Implementation Imperative from Theory to Practice
The global trend to incorporate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) data in mainstream financial reports is accelerating. Join this conference to understand what this is all about.

Finance professionals play a crucial role in helping organizations address and improve their impact on the planet. The more an organization understands how the three pillars of environmental, social and governance sustainability together affect and shape their strategies and business model, the more business-resilient they become. And, as ESG information is increasingly used by the capital markets and other stakeholder groups, such information needs to be reliable, credible, and well supported. Good governance plays a critical role in a company’s ability to produce high-quality, accurate and reliable information.


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This includes sessions from the conference: 2023 AICPA & CIMA ESG and Sustainability Conference

Sessions Included:

Welcome & Keynote: Pioneering Purpose: Leveraging Leadership Strategy for a Better Future (Dec 13, 2023 09:00 AM)

Sustainability - The Role of the Profession (Dec 13, 2023 10:05 AM)

ISSB Standards and CSRD Update (Dec 13, 2023 11:25 AM)

ESG Strategy Development and Implementation (Dec 13, 2023 12:50 PM)

Carbon Accounting, Net Zero and Reporting (Dec 13, 2023 01:55 PM)

How Does an Effective Sustainability Strategy Affect Your Business? (Dec 13, 2023 02:55 PM)

Welcome Day Two & The Regulatory Landscape (Dec 14, 2023 09:30 AM)

ESG Strategy for CPA Firms (Dec 14, 2023 10:30 AM)

Sustainability - Looking into the Future (Dec 14, 2023 11:50 AM)

Where is Tax in a Sustainability Strategy? (Dec 14, 2023 11:50 AM)

Green Financing and the Banking Environment (Dec 14, 2023 12:50 PM)

RESOURCE SESSION (NO CPE) - The Evolution of Finance: Rethinking Financial Performance and Value Creation with Oxford (Dec 14, 2023 08:30 AM)

$29900
Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Welcome & Keynote: Pioneering Purpose: Leveraging Leadership Strategy for a Better Future
    Identification
    ESG2301
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    This session will discuss the meaning of corporate purpose, the way in which it is effectively implemented and embedded in a business, and the results of doing that in terms of financial and non-financial performance for both shareholders and other stakeholders.

    Objectives

    • Recognize a deep understanding of what it means to have a meaningful purpose.
    • Recognize a good appreciation of the governance arrangements required to implement corporate purpose.
    • Identify how corporate purpose can be measured and evaluated.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Colin Mayer
    Professor, Oxford
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Sustainability - The Role of the Profession
    Identification
    ESG2302
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    Environmental, social, and governance issues can pose great risks as well as offer big opportunities that impact an organization’s ability to create long-term value. Demands across multiple stakeholders, including shareholders, are accelerating the need to address these issues through business strategies, investments, budgeting, reporting, assurance and more. This session will explore the sustainability and ESG drivers that are influencing the need for accounting and finance professionals to play a pivotal role within organizations as business partners or as trusted advisors. Join leaders in this session as they discuss how the accounting and finance profession can support the successful execution of sustainability strategies and take the lead on implementing processes for measuring and reporting on sustainability.

    Objectives

    • Identify the drivers for the adoption of sustainability strategies and investments.
    • Recognize the various stakeholder demands for sustainability measurement, reporting, and assurance.
    • Identify the knowledge and skills needed to support the successful implementation of sustainability strategies

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Ami Beers
    Ami Beers, CPA/CGMA
    Senior Director - Assurance and Advisory Innovation, AICPA & CIMA
    Speaker Image for Jeremy Osborn
    Global Head of ESG, AICPA & CIMA
    Speaker Image for Jessica Wollmuth
    Principal, EY
    Speaker Image for Barry Melancon
    President and CEO, AICPA & CIMA
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for ISSB Standards and CSRD Update
    Identification
    ESG2303
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    As we transition from voluntary sustainability reporting to an era of mandatory disclosure, two new sets of standards entered the global stage in 2023: the ISSB Standards from the IFRS Foundation and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) under the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This session will provide an overview and update on the new standards and how they will impact companies around the world, including in the US. Experts will provide insight into the ISSB's global baseline for investors versus the EU's double materiality assessment for a broad audience of European stakeholders. They will focus on how interoperability between the standards will help reduce the burden on preparers and will preview their future development and implementation. 

    Objectives

    • Identify latest updates and future steps for the ISSB Standards and Europe's ESRS
    • Identify how companies need to prepare in terms of processes and materiality assessments.
    • Identify comparisons between the new standards, how they differ and how they intersect.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Neil Stewart
    Director of Corporate Outreach, ISSB / IFRS Foundation
    Speaker Image for Robert Adamczyk
    ESG Adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for ESG Strategy Development and Implementation
    Identification
    ESG2304
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    This session focuses on the foundational elements of how to go about developing and implementing an effective and impactful sustainability strategy and program. 

    Objectives

    • Identify the fundamental elements of sustainability strategy development.
    • Identify the considerations involved in developing an effective sustainability strategy.
    • Identify the steps in a sustainability roadmap that lead to reporting and transformational value creation.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Karen Baum
    Karen J. Baum, CPA, CFE
    Managing Principal, Sustainability & ESG, BDO USA
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Carbon Accounting, Net Zero and Reporting
    Identification
    ESG2305
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    This session provides an explanation of carbon accounting and its practical applications, allowing you to implement it within your own role and gain insight into your organization’s carbon footprint.

    With carbon accounting, organizations can make accurate assessments of where to focus their efforts on decarbonization. Carbon accounting serves as the essential language through which investors, businesses, finance professionals, and accounting experts can engage in meaningful discussions about climate change. Measuring an organization’s carbon footprint means it can be managed and reduced, contributing to the broader goals of addressing climate change at the organizational level. This session is valuable for accounting and finance professionals who wish to measure and disclose their organization’s footprint and identify reduction opportunities, as well as accounting firms seeking to provide assurance or advisory services.


    Objectives

    • Recognize the concept of carbon accounting and the key drivers.
    • Identify the purpose and significance of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) in establishing global standards for emissions accounting and reporting.
    • Recall how to calculate carbon emissions, including familiarity with various calculation methods.
    • Identify various disclosure frameworks and standards used for reporting carbon emissions.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Keiko Kurokawa Henry
    Senior Climate Analytics Lead, Persefoni
    Speaker Image for Anjali Patel
    ESG Reporting, AICPA & CIMA
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for How Does an Effective Sustainability Strategy Affect Your Business?
    Identification
    ESG2307
    Date
    December 13, 2023

    At the end of the session participants will be able to:

    • Recognize the difference between a sustainability strategy driven by value creation and one driven by regulatory mandates
    • Adopt management and operations techniques that reduce the risk of ineffective sustainability strategies
    • Identify possible hidden benefits of adopting a sustainability strategy
    • Implement metrics and KPIs that help monitory the effectiveness of sustainability programs
    • Communicate sustainability strategies and required actions across an organization

    Objectives

    • Recognize the difference between a sustainability strategy driven by value creation and one driven by regulatory mandates.
    • Identify possible hidden benefits of adopting a sustainability strategy.
    • Recognize management and operations techniques that reduce the risk of ineffective sustainability strategies
    • Identify metrics and KPIs that help monitory the effectiveness of sustainability programs
    • Identify sustainability strategies and required actions across an organization

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Jim Burton
    Partner, Grant Thorton
    Speaker Image for Jennifer Field
    Chief Sustainability Officer, Henry Schein
    Speaker Image for Marieke Boudeling
    Principal ESG & Sustainability, Apex
    Speaker Image for Catherine Sheehy
    ESG and PBC Transparency Associate Director, United Therapeutics
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for RESOURCE SESSION (NO CPE) - The Evolution of Finance: Rethinking Financial Performance and Value Creation with Oxford
    Identification
    ESG23NS02
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    This session is for resource purposes only, there is no CPE.

    This is presented by Amir Amel-Zadeh, Associate Professor of Accounting with Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.

    We are witnessing a fundamental reshaping of capitalism and the finance function at organizations requiring new ways of how we measure economic performance and value creation. This will have profound implications for financial managers in organizations from how they make capital budgeting decisions, how they incentivize staff, to what gets measured and reported to capital markets. As sustainability considerations become integrated into strategic decision making the boundaries between the sustainability, strategy and finance will become ever more blurred.

    This talk will discuss what is driving this trend and what it means for financial managers drawing from work at the Oxford Rethinking Performance Initiative and academic research.

    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Welcome Day Two & The Regulatory Landscape
    Identification
    ESG2308
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    This session covers major sustainability reporting requirements around the world and the business landscape, including the risks and challenges companies are currently facing in implementing and maturing their sustainability reporting systems. The session will also include a discussion of the digital reporting aspect of sustainability reporting.

    Objectives

    • Compare major sustainability reporting requirements around the world.
    • Identify prominent risks and challenges companies face in implementing their sustainability reporting.
    • Analyze the importance of the digital reporting in communicating sustainability information to users.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Wesley Bricker
    Global Assurance Leader, PwC
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for ESG Strategy for CPA Firms
    Identification
    ESG2309
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    This session will provide professional services firms with an understanding of the key elements involved in developing and implementing an ESG/Sustainability Strategy for internal operations and a strategy to provide ESG/Sustainability Services to the marketplace.

    Objectives

    • Identify professional services firms with an understanding of the key elements involved in developing and implementing an ESG/Sustainability Strategy for internal operations.
    • Identify professional services firms with an understanding of the key elements involved in developing and delivering ESG/Sustainability Services to the marketplace.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Christopher Tower
    Sustainability Professional and Champion, BDO
    Speaker Image for Andries Verschelden
    CEO, Good Lab
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Sustainability - Looking into the Future
    Identification
    ESG2311
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    The session will provide an engaging discussion amongst the panelists where they will express their views as to the future of sustainability. Questions will be posed such as... Where will businesses focus their efforts and how will the views of consumers and investors shape these efforts? How will the actions of regulators effect the landscape? Where are standard setters headed and how do you see the reporting ecosystem evolving? How will the environment, biodiversity loss and social goals factor in the equation? How will the sourcing and consumption of energy evolve and how will energy transition be positively and negatively impacted by innovation?

    Objectives

    • Identify the diverse and disparate views of experts of the future of sustainability as it relates to business, regulations, standards and frameworks, energy transition and innovation, amongst others
    • Recognize the future of sustainability.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for David Madon
    Director Public Policy & Regulation, IFAC
    Speaker Image for Neil Stewart
    Director of Corporate Outreach, ISSB / IFRS Foundation
    Speaker Image for Matthew Rusk
    Head of GRI North America, GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
    Speaker Image for Grant Harrison
    Director, Sustainable Finance & ESG, GreenBiz
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Where is Tax in a Sustainability Strategy?
    Identification
    ESG2312
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    Explore the critical intersection of tax and sustainability in our session, "Where is Tax in a Sustainability Strategy?" Gain insights into the evolving regulatory landscape, investor expectations, and sustainability frameworks, and how these factors impact taxation. Discover the strategic implications of integrating tax planning into sustainability initiatives and recognize the substantial value tax brings to a company's decarbonization efforts. Additionally, we'll delve into the ways tax providers can support their clients in prioritizing sustainability within their tax strategies, ensuring a harmonious alignment of financial and environmental objectives.

    Objectives

    • Identify the regulatory, investor, and sustainable framework trends as they relate to Tax.
    • Recognize specifically how Tax fits into sustainability from a strategic standpoint.
    • Recognize how Tax has tremendous value in a company’s decarbonization strategies/initiatives.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Victor Sturgis
    Victor Sturgis, CPA CCIFP
    Partner - Tax ESG Solutions Leader, Crowe, LLP
    Speaker Image for Wendy Punches
    Managing Director, PwC
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Green Financing and the Banking Environment
    Identification
    ESG2313
    Date
    December 14, 2023

    An engaging discussion amongst Sustainable Finance Experts surrounding the Green Finance Environment, including Sustainable Bond Financing and Lending.

    Objectives

    • Identify the Sustainability Related Bond Ecosystem, including Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-Linked Bonds.
    • Identify the Sustainability Related Lending Ecosystem, including Green, Social and Sustainability Linked Loans.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Jonathan Hackett
    Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Finance, BMO
    Speaker Image for Tjeerd Krumpelman
    Global Head of Reporting, Regulations & Stakeholder Management, ABN AMRO
    Speaker Image for Ana Silva
    Head of Americas Sustainable Finance Debt Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan
    Speaker Image for Christopher Tower
    Sustainability Professional and Champion, BDO
    $4900
    Standard Price

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