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Sustainability Reporting Certificate

Build your confidence and capability as a sustainability reporting practitioner with ICAEW’s upcoming certificate.

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About the certificate

Sustainability is central to business performance, resilience, access to capital and cost of capital. As expectations evolve, finance professionals play a critical role in ensuring sustainability information is robust, consistent and decision-useful.

The new professional certification is designed to support high-quality, decision-useful sustainability reporting. It will build on your financial reporting expertise and enable you to apply this to sustainability reporting in practice – providing a clear, recognised outcome demonstrating applied competence.

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About the assessment

The Sustainability Reporting Certificate will be awarded by ICAEW to individuals who successfully complete an online case study assessment.

Completing the assessment will demonstrate that you can:

  • understand and apply sustainability reporting standards (including ISSB / UK SRS)
  • interpret sustainability information in a business and financial context
  • strengthen the quality and credibility of disclosures
  • link sustainability reporting to financial performance, risk and decision-making
  • support assurance readiness and governance processes

The flexible e-learning format will allow you to complete the case study assessment at a time that fits in with your schedule.

Supporting your learning

To help learners prepare for the case study assessment, ICAEW is also developing a suite of curated learning resources.

These resources will:

  • Bring together trusted thought leadership and guidance.
  • Highlight key frameworks, standards and emerging developments.
  • Support self-directed learning at your own pace.
  • Build confidence in applying sustainability reporting concepts.

The curated content will provide a clear pathway to help you prepare effectively for the assessment.

Why this matters

Sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly important for organisations, driven by regulatory change, stakeholder expectations, and the need for transparent, high-quality non-financial information.

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The certificate will form a key part of ICAEW’s end-to-end sustainability learning pathway, supporting professionals with the integration of sustainability into financial operations and decision-making, sustainability reporting and assurance.

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