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How To Show Corporate Leadership In Sustainability

…the company’s financial performance. The work of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) shows that these issues are industry-specific and limited in number, from around five to seven. A good example here is Unilever with…

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How to Become a Sustainable Company

…over an 18-year period in terms of both stock market and accounting criteria, such as return on assets and return on equity. 2 In terms of stock market returns, the “high sustainability” companies had an abnormal stock market…

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Is sustainability now the key to corporate success?

…the low-sustainability ones in terms of both stock market and accounting measures. The annual above-market average return for the high-sustainability sample was 4.8% higher than for their counterparts and with lower volatility. The…

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Going Green in Annual Reports

…attention to sustainability reporting comes on top of decades of new accounting standards and regulatory disclosure requirements that have made companies’ financial statements long, complex, hard to understand, and costly to prepare.…

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