12th Colloquium: Enhancing governance and accountability in the public sector
7 November 2024: 12th Colloquium – Enhancing governance and accountability in the public sector and the Auditor General’s role.
Category: Colloquium
11th Colloquium: Equivalence between sustainability reporting standards
16 May 2024: 11th Colloquium – Equivalence between sustainability reporting standards; and sustainability reporting standard convergence.
10th Colloquium: The risks and opportunities of Generative AI
16 November 2023: 10th Colloquium – The risks and opportunities of Generative AI for companies and their governance
9th Colloquium: Mind the Gap
11 May 2023: 9th Colloquium – the expectation gap between the public, the accountant and the auditor
8th Colloquium: impact, outcomes and integration
3 November 2022: 8th Colloquium – impacts, outcomes and integration in a corporate world – Professor Mervyn King and 4 global thought leaders provide guidance on the new corporate reporting mandates
7th Colloquium: Connectivity
19 May 2022: Connectivity – connecting financial and sustainability reports is a missing link for global standard setters. This colloquium brings together global experts to unpack the conundrum.
6th Colloquium: Corporate Reporting
18 November 2021: Speakers from the IFRS Foundation, VRF and IOSCO and others explored the global shift in corporate reporting to include sustainability.
5th Colloquium: Enterprise Value Creation
The error of corporate leaders in the 20th century was to focus on increasing the wealth of shareholders instead of focusing on increasing the long-term health of the company. This “primacy of the shareholder” was unsustainable and has been replaced by enterprise value creation, preservation and erosion.
4th Colloquium: The Importance of ESG
Up to 80% of the market cap of companies are not additives in a balance sheet according to financial reporting standards. This percentage is made up of environmental, social and governance issues.
3rd Colloquium: Integrated Thinking and Doing an Integrated Report
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), in November 2019, issued a statement saying that there has to be accounting for value creation and that it is preferable that the chief financial officer is known as the Chief Value Officer.