In conversation with Jeremy Nicholls - The Accounting Paradox

Keynote speaker event with Jeremy Nicholls

The Accounting Paradox: How Financial Accounting is Damaging the World but Can Help Repair It

Join us for a book reading from the author and panel discussion on The Accounting Paradox, a bold new book by Jeremy Nicholls, co-founder of Social Value International, that challenges how businesses measure value and argues that financial accounting can become part of the solution to our social and environmental challenges rather than part of the problem. Financial accounting shapes how businesses measure value, allocate resources, and report their impact on society and the environment, yet the very frameworks we accept as "true and fair" may be driving unsustainable outcomes.

Context
When you think about the tools at our disposal to address the ecological, social and biodiversity challenges we face today, accounting might not immediately come to mind. And yet it is accounting standards, not science and not public policy, that set out how profit is calculated, which in turn drives investment decisions. What if we demanded that those standards reflect the true cost of business and its consequences?

Unless we look again at these fundamental principles, which have gone under the radar for so long, capital markets will continue to contribute to inequality, nature loss and climate change. What’s remarkable is that we already have in place everything we need for a more just and complete approach to accounting, and forward-thinking businesses are beginning to recognize that.

The Accounting Paradox sets out a vision for new way of accounting, and it’s one that we can adopt immediately.

Duration: 2 hours
Ticket price: Free
Format: Keynote presentation, panel discussion, followed by Q&A and a small reception
Time and Date: 19:00 - 21:30, Thursday, 17 September
Venue: Geelvinck Pianola Museum (Westerstraat 106, 1015 MN, Amsterdam)
Author and Lead Speaker: Jeremy Nicholls – Ashoka Fellow and co-founder of Social Value International
Panellists: Fiona Watson (VP Corporate Performance & Accountability at WBCSD) and Bastian Buck (Chief Standards Officer at GRI)

Free registration - but sign-up required due to limited capacity. After the keynote there will be time for Q&A, followed by a small reception to continue the conversation. There will also be an opportunity to buy the book and have it signed by Jeremy after the talk.