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Are we sustainable?
September 2024
The fundamental laws of thermodynamics will place fixed limits on technological innovation and human advancement. In an isolated system, the entropy can only increase. A species set on endless growth is UNSUSTAINABLE (taken from the Muse track, “The 2nd Law”, which presumably was taken from ‘something else’ way beyond my comprehension).
But is this where science now meets accountancy?
When we are not talking about succession planning, private equity, attraction and retention of talent, artificial intelligence or other latest technologies, we are talking about “sustainability”. Roll back just a few years, and sustainability was hardly a feature at an accounting conference. Now it’s mentioned more times than accountants can count. And sustainability links to all three of the (dare I say) ‘trendy’ three letter acronyms of ESG, CSR and DEI: Accountants being concerned about many things other than numbers - who’d have thought?!
Anyway, this all leads me to say I am delighted that Russell Bedford International has contributed to the International Accounting Bulletin’s supplement on ESG; and even more delighted that we can showcase specific examples of where our firms have stepped up and started to lead the way in the profession. I’m particularly proud of our firm in Barcelona and you can read our thought leadership piece HERE.
And… if you go to the case study on your PC (HERE) there’s a massive picture of my head; not that I contributed a lot to the article but so you can all print it out and put it on your walls/dart boards. Actually, don’t do that; we need to conserve paper!