Accountants Discussion Forum: ESG and the Accounting Professional – March 2023

What you will learn

By attending this webinar you will gain the following competencies:

• Informed about the best solutions to resolve current accounting issues.
• Competent to resolve current issues experienced in your practice.
• Able to guide your staff to assist clients with their accounting issues.
• Informed about the available resources to resolve accounting issues.

Description

Our Accountants’ Discussion Forum is a live and interactive forum that deals with current issues experienced by accounting professionals. Caryn Maitland CA(SA) and Carmen Westermeyer CA(SA) host this discussion forum during which they interrogate, debate and compare aspects of a topic from two different viewpoints that come from their different areas of specialisation.

These sessions are held monthly and are intended to provide you with solutions and answers to your current issues.

Price

The following pricing apply:

Ad hoc: R380 for this webinar

Subscription: Included for free in Accountant in Practice plus Tax, Accountant in Practice, Bookkeeper and Quick Update package.

Content

The webinar will cover the following foundational to intermediate topics:

• What is ESG Reporting?
• The ISSB and Sustainability Reporting Standards.
• What is meant by integrated reporting?
• Implications of financial reporting.
• Assurance considerations – ISAE 3000.
• Ethics considerations – King IV.
• Tax implications and considerations – Carbon Tax Act.

Requirements

There are no preconditions for this course.
Moderate level.
Recorded webinar made available on a specified date.

Presenter

Caryn Maitland CA(SA) 

Caryn Maitland is a Chartered Accountant (SA). She has been a member of IRBA as a registered auditor and accountant since 2002 and is also a registered member of SAICA.

Caryn has lectured Auditing and Accounting at various institutions and has conducted independent workshops and seminars for professional accountants since 2006 on various topics. She has presented on the national tour for the annual Legislation Update with ProBeta Training (Pty) Ltd in 2014 and 2015, as well as on the FASSET national tour for the Tax Administration Act in 2014.  Caryn is also involved with the annual SAICA SMP Technical tour.

Carmen Westermeyer CA(SA)

Carmen Westermeyer graduated in 2001 from the University of Natal, Durban (now UKZN), with a BCom Honours degree in Accounting and completed her articles with PwC in 2004. She has been a member of SAICA since then. In 2008, she was appointed lecturer at UKZN and coordinated the Taxation 300 course until December 2010. She then took over the role of Academic Leader for the Taxation Department, as well as the coordination of the Postgraduate Taxation Programme. 

In December 2012 Carmen started running ad hoc training courses for members of the profession. From December 2013, she moved into commercial training and consulting on a full-time basis. She has been involved in various training activities, such as the SAICA SMP training in 2014 and the FASSET Budget and Tax Update in 2015 and 2016.

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