Training: DIGITAL​ SUSTAINABILITY – It can be measured

Banks are asking for it, major customers are demanding it, and regulation is not getting any simpler. Sustainability information is no longer just a reporting issue: it increasingly influences financing, customer relationships, and strategic decision-making. Yet many SMEs lack the time, staff, and budget for additional consulting on these topics.

This 90-minute course provides an introduction to CSRD and ESRS, without getting lost in legal details. The event will be held in German.
The focus is on three practical questions:

• Which sustainability information does an SME, sole trader, or startup actually need?
• How can ESG data be collected with reasonable effort, digitally structured, and used for different stakeholders?
• How can credible sustainability information be used in financing discussions with investors and lenders, customer relationships, and business decisions?

Using concise examples and interactive exercises, you will gain an introduction to ESG data management that fits your organisation.

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Speaker: Florian Follert currently holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Accounting and Finance, and is Head of the Doctoral Programme at Schloss Seeburg Private University in Seekirchen am Wallersee, Austria. After training as a bank clerk and completing further qualification as a certified banking specialist (IHK) at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, he studied economics and law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, from 2011 to 2016, graduating with a Master of Science. During his academic training, Florian Follert gained valuable practical experience in management consulting and in banks in Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf and New York. Following his studies, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Auditing at Saarland University and, in 2019, was awarded a doctorate for a multiply reviewed and award-winning thesis on business valuation in the context of the squeeze-out of minority shareholders under company law. Together with his team, Florian Follert currently focuses in particular on questions that link the fields of accounting and finance with the topics of innovation and sustainability. A further research interest lies in the analysis of the auditing market and its regulation. In the current ranking by the magazine WirtschaftsWoche of the most research-active business economists under 40 in the DACH region, Florian Follert is placed 36th.

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