ACCA is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management ACCA has 140,000 members and 404,000 students who it supports throughout their careers, providing services through a network of 82 offices and centres around the world.
Accountants are playing an increasing role in the accounting, compliance and reporting requirements of corporate social responsibility and have considerable expertise in these areas. ACCA champions the extension of corporate reporting to include the social and environmental aspects of a business and has launched awards for sustainability reporting in Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the UK and North America. In 2002, ACCA became the first professional body to be awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, in recognition of its leadership in the sustainability field.
About WWF For more than four decades in over 90 countries around the world, WWF has worked for conservation of nature and ecological processes, through the concept of sustainable development. WWF defines this as a series of processes which are economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound: development that does not integrate all three is simply not sustainable.
This involves change in business practices and lifestyles, as well as the adoption of environmental and social standards to stay within the limits of available resources. Political will and appropriate incentives for the private sector are required to convert the ideas into action.
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