Despite the leaders of both countries being champions of fighting climate change, research shows both Canada and France are failing to train their accountants in sustainability. Why?
To properly consider climate risks for their business, directors need the financial expertise of accountants.
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Company directors have been put on notice about their duty to consider and disclose climate change risks. And to do that properly they need to call on the expertise of accountants.
The latest Australian Environmental-Economic Accounts tell us waste production is rising with GDP, but the information is incomplete and widely ignored.
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Water and energy use are becoming more efficient, which is good news for both the economy and the environment. But Australia has yet to realise the value of national environmental accounting.
Companies like Amazon create value for investors through their people, their invented systems and processes, and their physical presence.
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Traditional accounting calculates a company’s value by measuring physical assets and how much they owe. But we can tweak this for today’s economy by including people and their ability to innovate.
Congress missed a chance to make it easier for workers who book gigs through big digital companies to do their taxes.
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Companies like Uber and Etsy don’t have to tell most of the people working with them how much they’ve earned. With the federal government so behind the curve, some states are changing their rules.
Firms run with the long term in mind can aim to provide social, environmental, and financial returns.
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The amplified public concerns about executive pay that led to the cementing of reporting and disclosure into law, may start trend of voluntary disclosure among professional bodies.
All accounted for in Babylon. Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt.
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The first digits of numbers in a data set aren’t distributed equally. And now you know more than a lot of fraudsters do – and should – when they’re making up their phony numbers.
Could zero-based budgeting make this thing slimmer?
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The budgeting method seems to be back in vogue 39 years after Jimmy Carter introduced it to the federal government. So what is it and can it change our free-spending ways?
US tax law in three pages? Good luck!
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