Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting: An overview of current development and the identification of research opportunities

Seminar summary

This talk gives an overview of current developments and the identification of research opportunities for sustainability accounting and integrated reporting.

How to attend this seminar

This seminar is free to attend with no need to register in advance.

We welcome you to join this seminar online on Wednesday 26  October at 10am.

Speaker bio

Professor Charl de Villiers

Charl de Villiers is Professor of Accounting at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is internationally known for his Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting research and expertise. Charl is also an adjunct professor at several South African universities and Universiti Teknologi Mara in Malaysia. He has over 350 research based publications and presentations, including more than 100 articles in refereed journals, and two Routledge published edited books, namely Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting (2018), and The Routledge Handbook of Integrated Reporting (2020). He has published in Accounting, Organisations and Society; Journal of Management; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; and European Accounting Review, among other journals. As an indication of scholarly impact, his research has been cited more than 9,000 times and he has an h-index of 49, according to Google Scholar. Charl publishes in both the qualitative and the quantitative research traditions. He serves on the editorial board of 10 academic journals, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He is editor-in-chief of Meditari Accountancy Research and an editor of Accounting & Finance. Charl was President (New Zealand) of AFAANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand) from 2018 to 2020.