ESG Data and Reporting: Best Practices for Transparency and Accountability

This webinar forms part of the 2025 Sustainable Finance & ESG Series.

1 PD hours

Description

This webinar will cover the critical importance of ESG data and reporting in promoting transparency and accountability within organisations. It will address the challenges of ESG data collection and analysis, and offer best practices for accurate and consistent reporting that meets regulatory standards and stakeholder expectations.

This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.

Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.

Content

Importance of transparency in ESG reporting
Best practices in ESG data collection
Common challenges in ESG reporting
Meeting regulatory requirements for data transparency
Tools and technologies for ESG data management
Ensuring accountability through accurate reporting

Presenter

Sharon Machado

Head of Sustainable Business at ACCA

Sharon is the head of sustainable business within ACCA’s Policy and Insights team. She works together with her team in the generation of future looking thought leadership research and influencing policy relating to the domains of sustainable business transition; ethics; financial and sustainability reporting; tax; business law; audit and assurance. This work has the aim of driving better business through the role of professional accountants. In this work, Sharon takes a holistic view to how the domains connect to underpin sustainable business, the skills and action required. Sharon uses this view to inform interventions with members around the globe, and in engagements with EU, international and UK policy-makers, including the European Commission, IFRS Foundation, UK Endorsement Board, FRC, IESBA, and IFAC.

Education enabling the conversion of technical knowledge into action is vital, and Sharon regularly incorporates this into her own work. Her passion for education was gained from preparing students for the technical and professional demands of accountancy qualifications, which she did prior to joining ACCA in 2008. Since joining ACCA, her roles have also included shaping the ACCA Qualification and its digital transformation, an area to which she continues to input.

Sharon has a degree in Pure Mathematics and Statistics, and gained her professional accountancy qualification with Deloitte. She is a Fellow of ACCA.