Insightful, a PICPA Podcast

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This series takes a deeper dive into the cutting-edge issues facing the accounting profession being studied by the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs' Insights project. Insights will survey PICPA members across targeted segments, including within public accounting and corporate finance, on these issues and produce analysis for firm, company, and organization benchmarking. read less
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What Companies of All Sizes Must Know about ESG Measuring and Reporting
10-01-2023
What Companies of All Sizes Must Know about ESG Measuring and Reporting
“Within the next 10 years, if you’re not engaged in this, you’re probably not going to have a very successful, thriving, or resilient business.”  “What we are seeing is that companies of all sizes will have exposure.”  Protesters are targeting massive, big-name corporations over what they feel is a lack of proper attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. As PICPA Insights recently revealed, companies and organizations of all sizes have exposure to ESG factors. Alyssa Rade, chief sustainability officer at Sustain.Life, and Sarah Bratton Hughes, head of sustainable investing at American Century Investments, explain the sources of ESG exposure for companies of all sizes and what they could mean for corporate finance and accounting professionals.

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What Companies of All Sizes Must Know about ESG Measuring and Reporting
10-01-2023
What Companies of All Sizes Must Know about ESG Measuring and Reporting
“Within the next 10 years, if you’re not engaged in this, you’re probably not going to have a very successful, thriving, or resilient business.”  “What we are seeing is that companies of all sizes will have exposure.”  Protesters are targeting massive, big-name corporations over what they feel is a lack of proper attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. As PICPA Insights recently revealed, companies and organizations of all sizes have exposure to ESG factors. Alyssa Rade, chief sustainability officer at Sustain.Life, and Sarah Bratton Hughes, head of sustainable investing at American Century Investments, explain the sources of ESG exposure for companies of all sizes and what they could mean for corporate finance and accounting professionals.
The Impact of ESG Reporting and Assurance on Small and Midsize Accounting Firms
06-12-2022
The Impact of ESG Reporting and Assurance on Small and Midsize Accounting Firms
Our first episode of Insightful explores how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors will impact the exposure of small and midsize accounting firm clients. We go inside PICPA Insights: ESG Standards and Reporting with Christopher Tower of BDO and Charles Waring of EisnerAmper to determine the far-reaching impacts of ESG factors. Insights surveyed membership almost two months after the August 2022 release of the white paper and discovered that – of the respondents – there is still a strong lack of knowledge of ESG concepts, standard-setters, and proposed regulations.