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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 ...

Three new CFI methodologies up for approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... quantif[ies] carbon sequestration by permanent native mixed species environmental or mallee plantings using the Full Carbon Accounting Model; [and] measurement based methodology for reforestation projects," according to the Department of the Environment. ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... forced to say if there is a risk," she said. "[Recommendation 7.4] has a broad definition of materiality - it's not the accounting definition of materiality - so it's going to be a brave company that says they don't have any of these kinds of risks. ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 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, Guthrie said. "We equate environmental ...