ACCA announces UK Sustainability Reporting Awards shortlist for 2008
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announces the 14 finalists for its prestigious annual UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting.
They are:
Large Corporations
Anglo American
BAT
BHP Billiton
BP
BT
Camelot
GSK
Shell
The Co-operative Group
Unilever
Vodafone
Xstrata
Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SMEs)
REAP
Traidcraft
Rachel Jackson – Head of Social and Environmental Issues at ACCA, says: “This shortlist includes a wide range of industry sectors, including small businesses as well. This broad range of organisations shows that reporting transparently and credibly is becoming accepted, albeit slowly, as normal practice. And as the economic climate continues to turn ever-more gloomy, it is now more important than ever for organisations to be accountable for their impacts, and to ensure that corporate social responsibility remains at the forefront of everybody’s business strategy.”
The ACCA Awards judging panel is made up of experts in sustainability reporting, accounting and assurance, and they will be reviewing the short list in September 2008 to select the winners.
The results will be announced at the Awards presentation ceremony to be held on Wednesday 3 December 2008 at The British Library in London. This event will have an impressive line up of speakers, who will present on topical sustainability issues. As well as the winners’ presentations, the results of the annual reporting research will also be discussed. This year’s theme partner was the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, who will present their findings on the standard of reporting on Human Capital Management by the 2008 entrants.
ACCA's Sustainability Awards around the world reward companies for excellence in environmental, social and sustainability reporting. The aim of the awards is to identify and reward innovative attempts to communicate corporate performance, with the aim to reward transparency.
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Notes to editor
1. ACCA is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body and has some 325,000 students and 122,000 members in 170 countries world wide.
2. ACCA experts are available for media comment on all aspects of UK and international accounting, auditing, tax, small business, environmental reporting, corporate governance, business law and public sector finance.
3. The ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards, established in 1991 as Environmental Reporting Awards, are now held in several countries around the world.
4. The shortlisting judging panel was: Paul Burke, Senior Partner, Acona Ltd; John Hill, Independent Sustainable Business Advisor; Mike Kelly, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, KPMG Europe LLP; Professor Dave Owen, Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting, Nottingham Business School and Paul Scott, Director, CorporateRegister.com
For further information please contact:
Rachel Jackson, Head of Social and Environmental Issues phone: +44 (0)20 7059 5845 email: rachel.jackson@accaglobal.com
Helen Thompson, ACCA Newsroom phone: +44 (0)20 7059 5759/ 0772548654 e mail: helen.thompson@accaglobal.com