Integrated Reporting & Assurance Services (IRAS), analysed the 56 assurance engagements conducted for JSE-listed companies by 12 assurance providers for the 2024 financial reporting period, drawing several conclusions about the value assurance provides the assured companies and their stakeholders.
Integrated Reporting & Assurance Services (IRAS), in partnership with the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD), recently celebrated remarkable strides in corporate disability inclusion at a prestigious event held at The Leonardo in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Having cut my sustainability teeth at two of the largest global accountancy firms, the latter one cut me loose for spending too much of my personal time working with underprivileged children in one of South Africa’s largest townships: Soweto.
On the 17th of April, the IRAS team had the distinct pleasure of working with my friend George Makunga to deliver shoes to children attending a special needs school in Soweto.
My Lead CSAP Certificate has arrived! With zero fanfare, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve received my Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (CSAP) certificate from AccountAbility
When I joined IRAS in September of 2023 it was abundantly clear that my new “job” was not going to be limited to the tasks that I do for my boss, but also the tasks that I do for myself. As Michael (my boss) stated,
“Your #1 objective during your first year at IRAS is to learn.”
Over the past week, a ChemEng colleague (Joslin Lydall) and I conducted an assurance site visit for a UK-based oil and gas company with off-shore platforms situated northeast of Rio de Janeiro, aligned to AccountAbility’s AA1000AS v3, Type 11 (High) assurance standard.
In a recent Financial Mail magazine article, our Managing Partner and Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner, Michael Rea highlighted a confrontation with labour broker Adcorp over the calculation of the “wage gap” between executives and staff.
Since 2022, IRAS has partnered with MyWalk, an enterprise development (ED) project started by Adcock Ingram and Netcare to produce low-cost school shoes from recycled IV drip bags.
Our primary research consists of an annual review of how well JSE listed companies meet reasonable expectations for ESG/Sustainability data transparency. By reviewing ALL annual reports and supplemental documentation, IRAS creates an annual score representing how much quantitative (numerical) comparable performance data is made available to stakeholders.
Additional research reports are produced to cover additional topics such as SDG Reporting and ESG/Sustainability Assurance.