Supporting the global profession
Sustainability is top of the agenda for business, the public sector and policymakers everywhere.
Accountants, with their broadening skillset, have a central role to play in informing, driving and embedding sustainable approaches. Accountants can only fulfil their role through the creation and use of interconnected sustainability and financial information.
Here we have a range of resources and a series of guides that will enable everyone, especially professional accountants, to take a leading role enabling better business through the creation and use of sustainability-related information.
Guides and insights
Workshops and video resources
Your five-point agenda for action
ACCA encourages all to:
1. Embed a sustainability-led culture and risk management throughout the organisation
2. Collaborate to co-create and share sustainability-related processes, data, and insights
3. Leverage technology to collect, analyse and communicate connected sustainability-related and financial information
4. Employ ethical practices to mitigate ethical dilemmas that may arise from creating, communicating and using sustainability-related information
5. Continually learn to remain abreast of developments in the sustainability and business landscape.
Supporting the global profession
ACCA is committed to building capacity in the implementation and adoption of the ISSB Standards
ACCA is a founding partner in the IFRS Foundation’s Partnership Framework for capacity building. The framework is designed to support preparers, investors and other capital market stakeholders as they prepare to use IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.
Online course: Mastering Sustainability Reporting
This course builds on our Sustainability Reporting Guide to navigate practitioners through the eight stages of the reporting cycle, equipping them to meet sustainability reporting demands effectively.
"Achieving quality in sustainability reporting needn’t be a race; what’s important is having the courage to get started, the ability to apply judgement in the context of your organisation, getting others onboard, and finding ways to improve. "
Sharon Machado, head of sustainable business at ACCA
"There’s no one-size-fits-all solution. We encourage all involved to take time to work through the suggested processes, then design processes appropriate to their organisation and implement them. "
Hsiao Mei Chow, head of corporate reporting insights - sustainability at ACCA