Sustainability - Why It Matters to You and Your SME Clients

Objectives

You might see your role as an accountant to your clients as one where you prepare their accounts, their tax computations or perhaps do their audit. Increasingly though, technology will undertake many of these tasks to a greater or lesser extent, but that doesn’t mean your clients won’t need you.

We live in a rapidly changing world and helping to ensure that our clients have a business model which can cope with this is good for them and good for you. This course will look at some of the issues to consider and how you can help your client tackle them.

Key Topics

• Why sustainability and climate change matter to SMEs too
• Trickle-down effect of regulations affecting larger customer
• Customer preferences and expectations
• Owners’ and staff expectations
• Costs and supply chain challenges in a world with climate and geopolitical challenges
• Why social responsibility matters to SMEs
• Owners’ and staff expectations
• Legal requirements
• What might your client need to do about it?
• SWOT analysis on environmental factors such as climate, waste, extreme weather etc
• Developing policies, such as risk management and ESG policies
• Measuring GHGs (greenhouse gases)
• Action plans to minimise resource use
• How you can help your client
• Assist with SWOT analysis
• Identifying risks, such as stranded assets, impairments, insurance risks (eg non-availability)
• Assist with any changes needed in the business model

Who Should Attend 

Partners and managers delivering business advisory services to their clients.