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Description
As corporate ESG performance informs financial decisions, an understanding of ESG issues is crucial.
This course will explain the critical concepts behind ESG disclosure and why it's essential, along with the properties of high-quality disclosures.
You will look at examples of both investor-facing and public-facing reporting frameworks before discussing emerging trends in ESG Reporting. Participants will examine quantitative and qualitative disclosures to better understand the use cases, objectives, and impacts of different disclosure methods.
You will also explore how to prepare and position ESG disclosure to meet different expectations and requirements from investors, policymakers, customers, and rating agencies, while also discussing best practices. Learn how to interpret ESG disclosure and analyze disclosure quality to understand how stakeholders evaluate ESG risk and opportunity.
The course provides an opportunity for you to put your knowledge into practice in a case study that compares two companies' ESG disclosures using real, publicly available information.
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the key concepts behind ESG disclosure.
- Define and evaluate the use cases, objectives, and impacts of quantitative and qualitative disclosure methods.
- Prepare and position ESG disclosure to meet a variety of requirements from investors, policymakers, customers, and rating agencies.
- Interpret ESG disclosure and analyze quality to see how stakeholders evaluate ESG risk and opportunity.
Who Will Benefit
Investment professionals, management consultants, and financial analysts, as well as investor relations teams and senior managers at both private and public companies.
Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
This is an online session. This course is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Once registered, you can access the material at any time.
However, you will only have access to the course for 90 days after REGISTRATION.
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal. Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Derek Young is a managing director and leads the ESG Consulting Services Practice for Summit Strategy Group. Derek has over 20 years of consulting experience in ESG, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility across both the for-profit and non-profit sector, as well as multiple public policy roles. Derek has considerable experience in developing and implementing carbon management strategies, responsible sourcing programs, and community and stakeholder engagement initiatives.