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

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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
• Deep Dive into Sustainability – Understanding E, S, and G
• Sustainability Reporting and Disclosures
• Capstone

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 unlimited attempts).

• Discretionary refund available within 30 days of purchase if product materials have not been accessed.
• No refund will be processed once the registrant has accessed program materials.
• Refunds are at the discretion of CPA Canada after an assessment of product access has been performed.
• No refunds available after 30 days of purchase.

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