Course Details

Sustainability reporting is changing from day to day so it is important that accountants from all sectors and from small to very large companies keep abreast of the latest developments. This session takes you through from the very basic concepts of climate change through to the international and European sustainability standards and the latest EC Omnibus announced in February 2025.

 

Robert Kirk covers the following topics during this course:

  • Climate essentials for accountants (August 2023)
  • The CSRD and the TCFD pillars and disclosures
  • IFRS S1 and S2 and draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards
  • EC Omnibus February 2025
  • EFRAG   Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for non-listed SMEs
  • IFRS Sustainability – Education Material and FRS 102 Factsheet

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Consultant

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.