July 22, 2020 FEI Cincinnati Chapter FREE Webinar: ESG Update & Insight for Financial Professionals

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance, reporting and assurance has gained center stage around the world as organizations seek to better understand the needs and concerns of a variety of stakeholders, improve their own performance and better communicate their ability to create long term sustainable value. Finance professionals can play a valuable role in adding value as their organizations, start, evolve and continuously improve their ESG related activities.

• Learn about the latest drivers and application of ESG activity that enhance organizational value and sustainability for key internal and external stakeholders
• Gain insight into the most current ESG reporting techniques and leading practices as well as reporting frameworks used by leading organizations globally
• Understand internal control aspects and third-party assurance options for ESG reporting as well as integration with Enterprise Risk Management

Our presenter will be Bob Hirth, Senior Managing Director at Protiviti and co-vice chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). SASB is rapidly becoming the investor preferred ESG reporting framework and has been specifically suggested by major institutional investors. Bob served as COSO Chair from June 2013 until February 2018 and he is a former two-term Standing Advisory Group (SAG) member of the PCAOB.

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Speaker

Robert Hirth
Senior Managing Director
Protiviti

Bob Hirth is a Senior Managing Director of Protiviti, a global internal audit and business risk consulting firm that operates in 22 countries. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President, global internal audit and a member of the Firm’s six-person executive management team for the first ten years of Protiviti’s development. He has worked on assignments and made presentations in over 20 countries, serving more than 50 organizations and working closely with board members, C-level executives, University professors, finance and accounting personnel as well as public accounting firm partners and employees.

Bob started his career in public accounting and became a global equity partner of Arthur Andersen in 1988. During his tenure there, he worked in the Dallas, Melbourne Australia, San Jose and San Francisco offices, serving as a partner in both the audit and advisory practices of the firm. For over 20 years, he practiced as a CPA in Texas and California and also qualified as a chartered accountant and registered company auditor while working in Australia. In 2013, Bob was inducted into The American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners. In 2014 and 2015, he served as the Chairman of the IIA’s IPPF re-look task force. Bob graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, with a concentration in accounting.