IASeminars Blog

At the end of March the newly created International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) issued two exposure drafts. The first deals with general sustainability-related disclosure requirements whilst the second is concerned more specifically with climate-related disclosures.

In November of 2021, during COP26, the IFRS Foundation announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), to help meet the growing demand for high quality, transparent, comparable Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.

Imagine you need to organise some staff training. But this training is not for your department, or your organisation, or even your country, but for your entire continent. That is the challenge that was facing the African Professionalisation Initiative (API) a couple of years ago.

It’s hard to imagine that ten years have gone by since London was abuzz with the excitement and anticipation of its fast-approaching Olympic Games. Come July 2012 the atmosphere was electric, the city one whole festival of sport, the streets alive with fans from around the globe enjoying London’s ...

I’d like to share with you a memory from some twenty-five years passed. To this day the recall of it remains sharp, such was the anticipation, excitement, and to-be-honest, outright trepidation of what might lie ahead.

Managing the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks in emerging economies is serious work. Not merely because one requires trained, experienced, hands-on teams to ascertain and intelligently explore the legal, social and environmental implications of investments, but also because...

Several enquiries have come in over the past week, specifically for IAS 12 related training. It’s not unusual. For an accounting standard that’s been around, in some form or other, for over forty years, it’s an area of financial reporting that continues to present various challenges.