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A Fresh Look at Ongoing ESG and Carbon Accounting Developments

Bramasol

From a global perspective, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), which was established by the IFRS in November 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow, has issued its first two standards. IFRS S1 requires companies to communicate the sustainability risks and opportunities they face over the short, medium, and long term.

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204: Ehsaan Moosa

CFO Talks

Before joining Komatsu, he was a Senior Manager at KPMG in South Africa and he was responsible for several large audit clients. It’s an international brand, one of the top manufacturers and suppliers of this equipment, who are your typical clients? It’s quite a big business and operates from a R1.3

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Are You Ready for "Carbon Accounting"  Compliance?

Bramasol

While these reports represented an important element for communicating a company's corporate-citizenship vision and were also positive public relations initiatives, for the most part they did not contain a lot of hard, auditable data. In the area of climate change, this is often referred to as "carbon accounting".

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Standards for Carbon Accounting are Beginning to Take Shape

Bramasol

Certain climate-related financial statement metrics and related disclosures in a note to its audited financial statements; and ? ISSB was established by the IFRS Foundation in response to the Glasgow COP 26 conference in November 2021. Information about climate-related targets and goals, and transition plan, if any.

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166: Nicolaas van Wyk

CFO Talks

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. As they move from manufacturing to retail, to the service industry, they get this experience that they need to be at the pinnacle.

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165: Daniel Raubenheimer

CFO Talks

South African-born Daniel Raubenheimer is a passionate MBA graduate with cross-functional experience in tech, FMCG and manufacturing, he’s now CFO at Silon in Atlanta, USA, a leading producer of technical compounds and polyester staple fibres. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma

Musings on Markets

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.