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PEN OFF of frameworks, standards, and principles have begun to emerge, covering social and environmental accounting and reporting; corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting; sustainability reporting; and integrated reporting. “Corporate environmental reporting becomes a crucial issue in today’s corporate reporting” is the opening sentence of a 2008 study carried out by three academics, Pramanik, Shil and Das, and published in International Journal of Business and Management. In a 2012 article entitled “Six Reasons Companies Should Embrace CSR”, Epstein-Reeves recognizes that “corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not going to solve the world’s problems. That said, CSR is a way for companies to benefit themselves while also benefiting society”. Another anonymous article claims that “The term corporate social responsibility gives a chance to all the employees of an organization to contribute towards the society, environment, country and so on. Corporate social responsibility goes a long way in creating a positive word of mouth for the organization on the whole. Corporate social responsibility also gives employees a feeling of unparalleled happiness. Believe me, employees take pride in educating poor people or children who cannot afford to go to regular schools and receive formal education”. When one is trying to squeeze more money out of a client, it is important to be enthusiastic about the product you are selling and to stress how important the product is for the welfare of the customer. A number of different bodies deal with providing a more comprehensive picture of the state of a company than just its financial performance and position. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) sponsors an Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) highlighting the importance of high-quality corporate reporting for maintaining financial stability and sustainable development and, thereby, for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has just “successfully” launched its latest Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. On 23 November 2016 it approved its 2017- 2019 Work Program, which sets out the high-level priority areas for the GSSB over the next three years. The GSSB Work Program includes supporting the implementation of the GRI Standards, developing sector specific guidance, and updating Standards on a regular basis. The GSSB claims that its “First Global Sustainability Reporting Standards are Set to Transform Business”. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) is a global coalition of regulators, investors, companies, standard setters, the accounting profession and NGOs. It promotes communication about value creation as the next step in the evolution of corporate reporting. The IIRC’s vision is to align capital allocation and corporate behaviour to the wider goals of financial stability and sustainable development through the cycle of integrated reporting and thinking. The IIRC’s “Breakthrough Phase” is the move from the creation of the International Integrated Reporting Framework and market testing to development and early adoption by reporting organizations around the world. The IIRC’s objective for this phase is to achieve a meaningful shift towards early adoption of the International Integrated Reporting Framework. IFAC considers it vital that regulators, standard setters, and others involved in the development of reporting frameworks recognize and promote not just the need for enhancing organizational reporting but also the need for globally consistent and convergent practices and arrangements. The challenges associated with the convergence of financial reporting arrangements in the last decade provide a sound reason for all parties to aim for a consensus, or at least the identification of the relationships and consistency between the different frameworks, at the earliest possible time. Having one globally-accepted framework also helps provide a basis for a more coherent corporate reporting system. Having made clear that IFAC would like one globally-accepted framework, it is clear from IFAC’s statement, “IFAC believes that integrated reporting is the means to bring about a more coherent corporate reporting system”, that the IIRC model is what it would like to see adopted. So as we follow CMA’s instructions to move to Integrated Reporting, we can be sure that that is what will be accepted as the Standard in the future. The lesson is that future accountants must have a much broader expertise than that at present: prepare yourself now. 68 JULY - AUGUST 2017
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