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A questionnaire for evaluating ESG performance
This questionnaire provides an overview for measuring ESG performance. With this questionnaire it can be evaluated whether a) a company actively addresses the ESG impacts of its business activities and...
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How to start your ESG rating
Enterprises are social organisations that follow a purpose. For a long time, this purpose was capital-oriented. Accordingly, most business valuation models are cash flow oriented and show the return on...
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How Benchmarking leads to excellence
Market changes, social changes and technological progress lead to an ongoing need to adapt your business model. In order to remain competitive, changes are necessary, which have to be considered in...
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The new corporate minimum tax
The G7 have agreed in June 2021 on a new global corporate minimum tax. The Finance Finance Ministers of the G7 agreed the principles of an ambitious two Pillar global solution to tackle the tax...
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The Supply Chain Act in Germany
According to the Supply Chain Act companies must ensure that human rights are respected in their supply chains, i.e. that no children work or forced labour takes place. This is about compliance with...
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SFDR – 2021 to 2023 obligations
This article provides an overview of sustainable finance-related disclosure obligations (SFDR = Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) for financial market participants (FMPs) and financial...
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MiFID II and the integration of ESG factors
The Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council (SFDR Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) requires a financial product’s documentation to describe how its stated...
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The 17 SDG Goals and their 169 Targets
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and their related 169 targets of the UN are getting more important in corporate reporting and in the development of nations. This article provides a list of...
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Principles of Stakeholder Management
Methods of stakeholder engagement can include surveys (such as supplier, customer, or worker surveys), focus groups, community panels, corporate advisory panels, written communication, management or...
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Sustainability in commercial real estate
It is a complex practice aimed at creating and maintaining conditions that will promote a prolonged existence of human beings. It involves production practices that do not exhaust resources that...
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Portfoliomanagement Real Estate
This article gives an overview about the criteria that can be used in order to classify and evaluate real estate properties (i.e. the portfoliomanagement). The aim is to put together a portfolio that...
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Embracing Sensor Technology In The Home-Zone
Sensors are devices or subsystems that function to detect changes around its environment and send that information to other electronic devices. Furthermore, they are used together with other...
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Non-Financial Parameters of Company Evaluation
Although financial parameters play a critical role in evaluating a company’s performance. Recent research suggests that non-financial parameters could play an even bigger role in company evaluation....
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Does Higher Risk Lead to Higher Returns?
When you put your effort, trust and money into something, you expect them to bear returns after a certain period. Essentially, you will be risking all these aspects with the hope of reaping returns....
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Impacts of Organisational Change on Employees
Change is an inevitable necessity for any business to be able to level up. However, it is not always welcomed with open arms by employees. Fear is a natural reaction that adjustments ignites and the...
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Why Art is Inspiring to Businesses
Almost every aspect of life is connected to art and can be explained with a few artistic features. In most business scenarios, artistic features stimulate employees to be productive. Additionally, it...
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Scope 1,2,3 emissions vs Co2 footprint
Colloquially, the Co2 footprint is often equated with Co2 emissions. However, these are two different issues. The Co2 emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3) refer to the Co2 emissions caused by a company. While...
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Integrate ESG in Finance Education
The target picture of a comprehensive education should be on the understanding of the most important financial and non-financial interrelationships for entrepreneurial activity. ESG factors...
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Digital healthcare with 5G
5G gives a new meaning to ‘speedy recovery’ in healthcare facilities. Communication across departments is faster with this technology. It enables health facilities and patients to meet each other...
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Return to Work: Steps to Prepare Your Employees
The Covid-19 pandemic has to be the most trying time for a majority of businesses. People were forced into isolation, lockdowns were imposed, and people had to stay at home (alone). For over one year,...
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