Douglas Hileman guest speaker at Loyola Marymount University graduate Finance class.  Introduction to Sustainability reporting standards and frameworks.  Great launch pad for the newbie, or reminder for the pro.
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Doug presents at the 2025 West District conference of the Institute of Internal Auditors (www.theiia.org).  Some think the pendulum has swung back on Sustainability/ ESG.  If there’s no SEC Climate Disclosure Rule, does everything “climate” go away? Do privacy concerns evaporate?  Must customers be blocked from information they need for their decisions? Doug challenges Internal Auditors to apply core competencies:  objectivity; risk; opportunity to tailor efforts and add value to their organizations.   
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The cross-functional climate team at a mid-size company determined that commercially-available solutions were not suitable for their objectives.  Mr. Hileman presented a half-day workshop on processes, controls, and the design of calculation tools and techniques.  The session included mapping to the GHG Protocol, using estimates, leveraging COSO’s Internal Controls over Sustainability Reporting (ICSR), and designing controls to be “assurance-ready.”