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8 ACCA New at Expertise level questions with answers and explanations.
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Which are the four pillars of the core content of IFRS S1?
Correct answer: Governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets
IFRS S2 applies the same structure to climate.
IFRS S2 is about:
Correct answer: Climate-related disclosures
It covers physical and transition risks and opportunities.
An entity is exposed to the risk of new carbon taxes. What type of climate risk is this?
Correct answer: Transition risk
Transition risks arise from the move to a low carbon economy.
A factory could be damaged by flooding. What type of climate risk is this?
Correct answer: Physical risk
Physical risks come from acute events or longer-term shifts in climate.
Under the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, information is material if it could influence decisions of:
Correct answer: Investors, lenders and other creditors
This is financial materiality.
What does double materiality add to financial materiality?
Correct answer: The entity's impacts on people and the environment
It is used in the European Sustainability Reporting Standards.
Which are Scope 1 emissions?
Correct answer: Direct emissions from sources the entity owns or controls
Scope 2 is purchased energy and Scope 3 is the value chain.
A finance director asks an accountant to overstate an entity's sustainability performance. Which behaviour does this describe?
Correct answer: Greenwashing, which threatens integrity
Misleading statements breach the fundamental principles.