Accounting for a hopeful world

• Main Author: SUWARDY, Themin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: environmental reporting; frameworks; sustainability; Accounting; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1953; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2980/viewcontent/20211110_BT_Opinion_16_16x28_D.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In a commentary, SMU Associate Provost for Postgraduate Professional Education and Associate Professor of Accounting (Practice) Themin Suwardy noted that environmental reporting has become more common in the last 10 years and that companies are embracing sustainability reporting despite the challenging myriad of seemingly different models, frameworks and regulations. He opined that the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards to be issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) will enable companies to provide comprehensive sustainability information for the global financial markets. He urged accounting professionals to embrace the development wholeheartedly and to help organisations do and report good.