Sustainability assurance - micro course

Reporting on environmental, social and government (ESG) matters is becoming increasingly common. Regulators and external reporting standard setters in Australia (e.g. the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Corporate Governance Council) and New Zealand (e.g. the External Reporting Board (XRB) New Zealand) encourage entities to obtain external assurance over their ESG or sustainability reports.

This micro course is designed to be your first step in providing assurance on your client's sustainability reports. It will help you to understand what sustainability assurance is, why it is important, and the steps needed to complete a sustainability assurance engagement.

By attending this micro course, you’ll be able to:

• Explain sustainability assurance and its value to clients, stakeholders and report users
• Evaluate client sustainability assurance needs
• Apply the relevant assurance standard in planning, performing, and completing a sustainability assurance engagement.
• Explain current developments in sustainability assurance

Benefits of attending this course:

• Enable you to understand what sustainability assurance is, why it’s important and how to complete a sustainability assurance engagement
• Increase value that assurance practitioners can add by providing this service to their clients
• Build future-focused capability in the assurance space

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