Sustainability reporting for auditors

The substantive complexity of sustainability reporting, the cost of data collection and effective reporting on the one hand, and the limited resources and expertise available to SMEs on the other, emphasise the need for auditor support and advice. Indeed, accountants are often the main external contact the SME has to keep abreast of new regulations. Accountants also see it as their duty to help their clients along the way in implementing new regulations. For an SME, it is easier to be helped along the way via the accountant during the already existing, frequent consultation moments where now the focus is often on financial reporting. Moreover, the accountant knows the personal file of each organisation and can therefore also immediately translate theory to the concrete case of the SME customer. Accountants must therefore be prepared for this task and that is what we wish to meet with this training.