Social – Policy, tools and resources

Dr Katherine Christ, University of South Australia and Professor Roger Burritt, Australian National University - The Modern Slavery Compass is a tool to help business grapple with the management and reporting requirements of the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018.

This guide is a resource to help accountants assist firms identify issues, eliminate concerns, and comply in fact and in spirit to the Modern Slavery legislation. This document was prepared by the CPA Australia ESG Centre of Excellence.

Justine Nolan, Jolyon Ford, Professor M. Azizul Islam, 2019 - The Modern Slavery Act 2018 forms part of a global effort to relieve the plight of an estimated 40 million victims of modern slavery around the world. This CPA Australia funded research project serves as an important introduction for accountants on the rationale and implications of the Modern Slavery reporting regime.

This report shows the results of a CPA Australia survey of ESG adoption and practices by Asia Pacific businesses. The report showed 93 percent of businesses have adopted some form of ESG practice. However, smaller businesses are lacking behind in terms of adoption and struggle to adopt more advanced ESG practices.

This report examines the relationship between various types of sustainability information and a firm’s cost of capital, based on a sample of 385 public companies in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong.

This report is in collaboration with CPA Australia and the ASEAN Federation of Accountants joint focus group discussion on ESG for SMEs in ASEAN.

CPA Australia and the ASEAN Federation of Accountants (AFA) recently collaborated to organise an ASEAN ESG focus group discussion. This collaborative effort brought together a diverse panel of ESG experts from across the region to engage in meaningful dialogue about the driving forces, challenges, and emerging ESG-related developments in the region.