Sustainable Accounting Practices
ESG Metrics and Indicators
Green Accounting Principles
Industry Trends
Riddles
100

What is the purpose of triple bottom line reporting?

What are people, planet, and profit?

100

Which ESG factor assesses a company's commitment to ethical business practices and transparency?

What is governance?

100

Which aspect of a company's operations does green accounting primarily focus on?

What is environmental impact?

100

Who is increasingly considering ESG factors when making investment decisions?

Who are investors?

100

I am tall when I am young but short when I am old. What am I?

What is a candle?

200

Name one example of a social impact metric used in accounting

What is employee turnover rate, diversity and inclusion metrics, etc.

200

Which ESG indicator assesses a company's management of social issues such as labor practices and human rights?

What is social?

200

What is one goal of green accounting?

What are environmental transparency, cost reduction, strategic decision-making, resource efficiency, etc.

200

What governmental actions are driving companies to adopt standardized ESG reporting frameworks?

What are regulatory changes/mandates?

200

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

What are footsteps?

400

What type of investments consider both financial returns and positive environmental or social impact?

What are socially responsible investments (SRI) or sustainable investments?

400

What is the process of measuring and reporting a company's ESG performance alongside its financial performance?

What is integrated reporting?

400

What accounting method helps companies track their energy usage and environmental performance?

What is energy accounting?

400

Which type of companies are increasingly using ESG reporting to attract investors and customers who prioritize sustainability?

What are publicly traded companies/corporations?

400

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

What is a stamp?

800

Green bonds are financial instruments designed to fund what type of projects?

What are environmentally sustainable projects?

800

In accounting, what term refers to the measurement and reporting of a company's greenhouse gas emissions?

What is carbon accounting?

800

Name 1 role that stakeholder engagement plays in green accounting practices?

What is communication, trust, transparency, innovation, accountability, etc.

800

What is the term for extending ESG considerations to the suppliers in a company's supply chain?

What is supply chain management?

800

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

What is darkness?

1000

Name one common framework used for reporting on sustainability performance.

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), etc.

1000

What accounting principle involves assessing and reporting a company's environmental impact in monetary terms?

What is environmental cost accounting?

1000

What is the term for assigning a monetary value to environmental assets like clean air and water?

What is natural capital accounting?

1000

Name 1 reason how technology is facilitating ESG reporting?

What is by making it easier to collect, analyze, and report ESG data?

1000

What fish costs the most?

What is a goldfish?