Course Details

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting has become  the key societal issue facing the world in the twenty first century. A new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has been set up to develop specific standards for listed companies. These will undoubtedly be implemented in a simplified form into FRS 102. The course should help those accountants preparing financial statements better understand the likely impact of ESG standards in their annual reporting.

 

Professor Robert J Kirk covers the following topics during this course:

 

  • Climate essentials for accountants (August 2023)
  • The development of the ISSB 
  • The two new IFRS S1 and S2 standards
  • The development of European Sustainability Reporting Standards
  • The implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

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Robert Kirk

Robert qualified in first place in 1975 as an Irish Chartered Accountant after graduating in Economics from Queens University. He trained in practice with Price Waterhouse and later worked in industry with a subsidiary of Shell (UK). His teaching career started with Business and Accounting Training (now Griffith College) in Dublin where he taught mainly on the professional examination courses for ICAI, CPA, CIMA and ACCA in Belfast and Dublin.

Robert specialises in the teaching of and research into the development of accounting standards in the United Kingdom. He has published 18 books and numerous articles in both academic and professional journals. His latest publication (co authored with Stephen McNamee) is the second edition of ‘A practical guide to UK and Irish Gaap’ (May 2020) (552pp) published by Chartered Accountants Ireland.