A Practical Approach to Calculating Your Carbon Footprint + Fundamentals of ESG Certificate Bundle

Implications for the profession

For CPAs and finance professionals, sustainability has rapidly become a hot topic with significant implications for the profession. Recognizing the importance of sustainability issues in today’s business environment is the first step in adapting to the changes that accompany the increasing stakeholder demand for sustainability information from businesses.

Foundations of sustainability issues

You’ll review sustainability issues and opportunities to help you develop a high-level understanding of the key topics, including:

• The three pillars of sustainability
• Key bodies that have created suitable reporting standards, guidelines, frameworks, and requirements
• Recent changes to the sustainability reporting landscape

Showcasing your new knowledge

You’ll receive a certificate and digital badge to showcase your new knowledge in this developing area after completing the course.

Who Will Benefit

• Any accounting or finance professional who wants to understand more about the current governing bodies, frameworks, and reporting requirements for ESG.
• Accounting and finance professionals who provide ESG assurance or advisory services for clients and need to stay well informed about the current requirements and evolving nature of ESG.
• Management accountants who have a key role in driving sustainable strategic and operational decisions for which it is crucial to understand the business case for ESG, and what it means for investors, stakeholders, and businesses.

Key Topics

• Sustainability fundamentals
• Expectations of investors, stakeholders, and shareholders
• The accounting and finance professional’s role in sustainability
• Existing reporting requirements
• Frameworks that drive reporting
• Key global bodies that set the baseline for reporting and frameworks
• Recent standards and reporting requirements

Learning Outcomes

• Recognize the importance of sustainability and ESG in today's business environment.
• Recognize the three pillars of ESG.
• Identify key factors influencing the current sustainability reporting landscape.

Thursday, January 16, 2025
12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

To provide accounting professionals with a substantive understanding of carbon accounting processes, procedures, and calculation methodologies.

Key Topics

• Carbon Accounting: Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
• Scopes 1 & 2 Emissions
• Scope 3 Emissions & Supplier Engagement
• Reporting and Disclosing Your Emissions
• Target Setting & Decarbonization

Learning Outcomes

• Differentiate Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol standards.
• Identify the appropriate methodologies and tools for calculating an organization’s carbon footprint.
• Determine the process for establishing inventory boundaries for greenhouse gas GHG emissions.
• Recognize best practices for effectively reporting and disclosing emissions to stakeholders.
• Develop strategies for setting achievable GHG reduction targets to drive organizational sustainability efforts.

Who Should Attend

• Accounting and finance professionals responsible for climate reporting
• Accounting professionals responsible for assurance over climate reports

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