CFOs play a critical role in crafting a clear sustainability reporting plan that not only meets compliance requirements but also drives value. They are tasked with navigating complex economic conditions, managing a diverse set of priorities, and achieving compliance for a new area within a tight timeframe. This paper explores the challenges CFOs face and the questions they need to ask to understand the impact of sustainability reporting on their organisations.

Download Paper 1 - What CFOs need to know today 

Sustainability reporting requires a high degree of visibility and obligation on the business, with challenging requirements on a relatively new topic. This paper delves deeper into the essential areas where CFOs and organisations must focus—across people, processes, and data—to evolve their reporting operating models. By identifying key areas that need to mature and implementing targeted, pragmatic interventions, organisations can meet compliance deadlines while laying the groundwork for long-term sustainability success.

Download Paper 2 - The CFO's building blocks for success

While compliance with sustainability reporting requirements is essential, CFOs can also harness robust sustainability data and insight to drive better business decisions. This paper examines how CFOs can move beyond compliance to create business value, looking at opportunities for shareholder value, employee value, customer and public value, and environmental value. It also highlights how clear leadership can unlock strategic value from sustainability reporting.

While many companies face similar challenges, those with the right mindset can turn these challenges into opportunities. CFOs have a key role to play in leading this transformation, ensuring their organisations not only comply with new regulations but also leverage these requirements to drive value and positive change.

Download Paper 3 - How CFOs drive impact and realise value

With organisations facing skill and resource shortfalls, this paper outlines the people, processes and operating model required for effective sustainability reporting. Financial reporting models are mature and well understood – but sustainability reporting introduces new and often unfamiliar demands. The scope and complexity of disclosures, particularly for organisations reporting across multiple jurisdictions, require clear decisions on what to report. As a result, many organisations are rightly focused on achieving compliance in their first reporting cycles. However, with rising expectations and increasing regulatory demands, success over time requires a reporting model that is repeatable, reliable, and efficient. For CFOs looking to meet compliance deadlines or create long-term value, the starting point is establishing an effective reporting operating model. 

Download Paper 4 - The CFO's Operating Blueprint

This paper explores effective sustainability data management. Mandatory sustainability reporting is setting a new standard, turning effective data management into a strategic imperative. After all, a report is only as strong as the data behind it. Yet for many organisations this remains a challenge. The stakes are high. The quality of data inputs determines not just the quality of reporting outputs and achieving compliance – but the value organisations can create from new sustainability insights. Getting the data foundations right is critical. CFOs know the importance of high-quality data to drive trust, insight, and performance. To meet sustainability disclosure standards, data management and reporting capabilities must mature quickly. 

Download Paper 5 - The CFO's guide to sustainability data

This paper explores effective sustainability governance and controls. Across Asia Pacific, most organisations are becoming familiar with emerging sustainability reporting requirements – but fewer are focused on building the necessary controls or risk management systems. This is no easy feat. It involves meeting complex disclosure obligations using standards applied to new subject matter and unfamiliar data. With heightened expectations from regulators and stakeholders, getting this right is critical. With the push for assurance-ready sustainability disclosures, finance leaders are stepping into a central role – responsible not just for sustainability reporting, but for ensuring trust. 

Download Paper 6 - How CFOs can build confidence and control