Deep Dive into Sustainability – Understanding E, S, and G

The authority to decide what learning program constitutes acceptable CPD and evidence of CPD hours to meet regulatory requirements remains solely with your provincial or regional CPA body

This is the second of four courses within thecertificate program: A New Frontier, Sustainability and ESG for CPAs.

The certificate is comprised of four courses:

• Introduction to Sustainability – A Multi-Year Retrospective (available for sale)
• Deep Dive into Sustainability – Understanding E, S, and G (available for sale)
• Sustainability Reporting and Disclosures (available for sale – spring/summer 2023)
• Capstone (available for sale – spring/summer 2023)

Courses will be a mix of asynchronous (on-demand) learning and synchronous (virtual classroom) learning.

The course is comprised of six online modules:

1. Materiality
1. Overview of sustainability and identifying sustainability issues
2. Materiality Assessment
2. Environmental
1. Overview and Importance of Environmental Topics for CPAs
2. Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
3. Other Environmental Topics
3. Social
1. Overview and Importance of Social Issues for CPAs
2. Regulatory and Compliance Issues
3. Social Issues: Human Rights
4. Social Issues: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5. Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Communities
6. Organizational Issues
4. Governance
1. Governance Perspective
2. ESG’s Financial Implications
3. ESG Implementation Challenges
5. Economic
1. Economic Sustainability Overview
2. Economic Sustainability in Action
3. Sustainable Procurement
6. Financial
1. Financial and ESG Data

The course includes interactive e-Learning slides, audio, video, knowledge checks and an end-of-module multiple-choice quiz (needing 80% or higher with three attempts).

Due to the online availability of the course materials, no refunds will be processed once the registrant has accessed these materials.

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