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CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... organization is reporting," CDSB said on its website. The CDSB's reporting framework is guidelines that use the language of accounting standards to create a type of measurements for natural capital or environmental assets. The new reporting framework ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... the forefront, I think it will mean a gradual continued uptake in assurance, with companies using similar standards, accounting standards, to assure their sustainability data." One of the biggest changes between the 2012 and 2013 assurance report is ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... an increasingly water scarce world." See Also: ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Balance Foundation, applying the "creating shared value" model to Australian companies, said Stewart Jones, professor of accounting at the Business School. Jones was "instrumental" in the new initiative, CAER said. "We were impressed with the granularity ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... comes to due process, if you look at the GRI model, it lends from the model of IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board and whilst integrating GRI's unique multi-stakeholder model." The public comment period on the governance ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... disclose payments it makes to governments. The European Union has also put in place amendments into the Transparency and Accounting Directive. The amendments to the Transparency and Accounting Directive will make it a requirement for European-Union listed ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... not required to have capital put aside, we have capital put aside to meet ASIC requirements. The last thing to do is accounting such that the accounts are more separate from the church." Walsh also noted that UCA Fund Management would engage in other ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... recent initiatives such as The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)." Although the report didn't analyse any Australian-based projects, the conclusions are applicable to abatement ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... measurement and disclosure at corporate level as well." The report posited that the recent release of the Australian Water Accounting Standards, which call for third-party verification of reported figures, might positively impact on this. "Generally ...

CDSB tackles reporting of carbon asset stranding risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... are the legal and contractual obligations of that," Guthrie said. "It's not just a question of being able to write an accounting standard - this is a multidisciplinary type of reporting activity, and one of the things we're finding is that there is no ...