Corporate responsibility and the management of non-financial aspects as a success factor to create long-term added value.
Corporate responsibility as a success factor to create long-term added value.
Companies’ long-term financial success is closely linked to how they are integrated into society and the environment. Climate change, calls to observe human rights, digitalization and other megatrends demand a holistic management approach as well as transparency with respect to a company’s own performance.
Emerging changes in investor behavior, additional regulation to restructure financial flows, opportunities opened up by digitalization as well as the influence of new media on companies’ reputations are increasing the importance of ESG factors on an ongoing basis. Enterprises must embrace an open, transparent approach toward communication to satisfy clients', investors', suppliers' and supervisory authorities' expectations.
How to create trust?
Growing visibility of the link between social, environmental and economic successes as well as of how these are factored into investment decisions and the non-financial performance aspects of compensation systems goes hand in hand with an increase in the importance of the quality and reliability of underlying processes, control systems and performance indicators. For board members and senior management, this increasingly raises the question of how this kind of content should be incorporated into the existing assurance concept, what constitutes an appropriate audit depth and which characteristics an audit should have.
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Further information
Human rights (PDF, in German)
Sustainability reporting (PDF, in German)
Clarity on Sustainable Finance
Towards net zero report (PDF)
The time has come – KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2020 (PDF)