Webinar #13: Hijacking ‘Sustainability’ (Accounting): The Case of ‘ESG’ and the IFRS Foundation

Finance and Banking Network is organizing Webinar #13 titled “Hijacking ‘Sustainability’ (Accounting): The Case of ‘ESG’ and the IFRS Foundation”

Speaker:
Professor Charles H. Cho, PhD, CPA
Professor of Sustainability Accounting
Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability
Schulich School of Business – York University, Canada

– Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023
– Time: From 9 am to 10 am (Toronto time – UTC-4)

📌 Please register to save your space via Zoom at: https://lnkd.in/eMXkykVZ

Keynote speaker’s profile:

Charles H. Cho, PhD, CPA H. Cho has published his work in leading academic journals such as Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, @Accounting Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives On Accounting, the European Accounting Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He currently serves as an Editor of the Accounting Forum and the Accounting and Business Ethics Section Co-Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics. He is actively involved in the academic community as a Council member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Chair of its International Associates Committee, is regularly invited as a plenary keynote speaker at international conferences and professional events, and is solicited by the media. Recently, he was selected as one of the “Top 50 Academic and Research Support Project” by the Republic of Korea’s Prime Minister and Minister of Education; received the Honorable Knight Award from the University of Central Florida’s Hall of Fame; and was recognized as one of the top 2% most cited scholars within discipline worldwide (34th in the world and 1st in Canada) in the Accounting field for 2019.

Session host: Dr. Tam Nguyen, Associate Professor in Accounting, Nottingham University Business School.
Tam has been qualified as a chartered accountant with a number of professional accountancy bodies including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK) and Australia Certified Practising Accountants (CPA Australia). Tam’s research interests include financial reporting, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and climate finance. Tam has published his research papers in several internationally excellent research journals, such as Business & Society, Financial Accountability and Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, Accounting Forum, etc. Dr Tam Nguyen is currently Associate Editor at (i) Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and (ii) Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting.🌍