Flagship course

ESG Financial Assurance Fundamentals

A studio course for auditors, controllers, and sustainability leads who must produce ESG-related financial assurance that survives concurring review.

19 studio hours · Live cohort · App-based labs

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Modules

  • 01 Boundary design — what sits inside ESG-related financial assurance vs. narrative disclosure
  • 02 Materiality maps that finance can defend under challenge
  • 03 Sampling plans for environmental and social quantitative claims
  • 04 Linking sustainability notes to trial-balance and subledger evidence
  • 05 Working inside a financial auditing app for ESG-related financial assurance
  • 06 Concurring review rehearsal and management representation language

Learning outcomes

By the end of the cohort you will be able to draft an assurance plan, assemble an evidence pack with clear source-to-KPI lines, document limitations honestly, and brief a non-specialist partner on residual risk.

You will also leave with annotated templates tuned to Taiwan(China) reporting calendars — useful even if your group reports under multiple frameworks.

Instructor

Portrait of instructor Anika Rao

Anika Rao

Former assurance senior manager focused on sustainability-linked financial disclosures. Anika has led training desks across Asia and now designs Connecteddatahub studio labs with an emphasis on evidence discipline over presentation polish.

Informational pricing

Seats in the public Assurance Atelier cohort are listed at NT$48,500. Private firm studios are scoped separately. This site does not process checkout — contact us to reserve a place.

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FAQ

Do I need prior ESG experience?

You need comfort reading financial statements and workpapers. Deep sustainability expertise helps but is not required — we teach the assurance lens first.

Which tools do labs use?

Labs run inside a financial auditing app configured for ESG-related financial assurance. We also accept exports from common GL systems for homework.

What is a real limitation of this course?

We cannot certify your firm’s methodology against a specific standard-setter’s latest FAQ overnight. Regulatory texts move; we teach durable evidence habits and flag where local counsel or methodology specialists must still decide.

Are sessions recorded?

Yes, for enrolled participants during the cohort window. Recordings are not a substitute for live critique circles, which require attendance.

Course reviews

Module 04’s ledger-link exercise exposed a hole in our water KPI that three internal walkthroughs had missed.
Jun Park, Audit Manager
Strong on app navigation. Peer critique felt uneven in week two when two teammates dropped — still worth finishing.
Sofia · Hsinchu