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E2 IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards and ethics

Written by Saad Rahman (ACCA)

8 ACCA New at Expertise level questions with answers and explanations.

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  1. Which are the four pillars of the core content of IFRS S1?

    • 1 Governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets
    • 2 Planning, control, audit and review
    • 3 Assets, liabilities, income and expenses
    • 4 Revenue, cost, profit and tax
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    Correct answer: Governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets

    IFRS S2 applies the same structure to climate.

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  2. IFRS S2 is about:

    • 1 Financial instruments
    • 2 Leases
    • 3 Revenue
    • 4 Climate-related disclosures
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    Correct answer: Climate-related disclosures

    It covers physical and transition risks and opportunities.

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  3. An entity is exposed to the risk of new carbon taxes. What type of climate risk is this?

    • 1 Transition risk
    • 2 Liquidity risk
    • 3 Credit risk
    • 4 Physical risk
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    Correct answer: Transition risk

    Transition risks arise from the move to a low carbon economy.

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  4. A factory could be damaged by flooding. What type of climate risk is this?

    • 1 Physical risk
    • 2 Tax risk
    • 3 Market risk
    • 4 Transition risk
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    Correct answer: Physical risk

    Physical risks come from acute events or longer-term shifts in climate.

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  5. Under the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, information is material if it could influence decisions of:

    • 1 Only the government
    • 2 The general public
    • 3 Investors, lenders and other creditors
    • 4 Only employees
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    Correct answer: Investors, lenders and other creditors

    This is financial materiality.

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  6. What does double materiality add to financial materiality?

    • 1 The entity's impacts on people and the environment
    • 2 Two sets of financial statements
    • 3 A tax adjustment
    • 4 A second audit
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    Correct answer: The entity's impacts on people and the environment

    It is used in the European Sustainability Reporting Standards.

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  7. Which are Scope 1 emissions?

    • 1 Direct emissions from sources the entity owns or controls
    • 2 Emissions from customers' use of products
    • 3 Emissions from purchased electricity
    • 4 Emissions in the supply chain
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    Correct answer: Direct emissions from sources the entity owns or controls

    Scope 2 is purchased energy and Scope 3 is the value chain.

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  8. A finance director asks an accountant to overstate an entity's sustainability performance. Which behaviour does this describe?

    • 1 Prudent reporting
    • 2 A permitted policy choice
    • 3 Greenwashing, which threatens integrity
    • 4 A normal estimate
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    Correct answer: Greenwashing, which threatens integrity

    Misleading statements breach the fundamental principles.

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