Join Barbara Porco and Timothy Hedley for "Educating for Impact: Integrating Sustainability into Accounting"
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Sustainability is transforming business practices worldwide and accounting education is keeping pace. Join authors Barbara Porco and Tim Hedley as they share their expertise on navigating this shift and bringing sustainability reporting into your classroom with confidence.
Whether you're new to the topic or looking to deepen your approach, this webinar is built for educators at every level. Their groundbreaking new text, Sustainability Reporting and Disclosures, is reimagining how sustainability is taught and here's why:
Whether you're integrating sustainability into an existing course or building something new, walk away with the tools and inspiration to lead the conversation.
Reimagined for educators. Ready for your classroom.
Barbara is a member of Fordham University’s accounting faculty for over 25 years and currently serves as the associate dean of the graduate school of business and managing director of the Responsible Business Center (RBC). She has been the recipient of several academic awards including the American Accounting Association Ethics in Accounting Excellence Award, Faculty Magis Award, the Dean’s Net Impact Award, and the Gabelli Teaching Innovation Award. Barbara has both a master’s degree in sustainability and environmental management and a certification in corporate sustainability and innovation from Harvard University as well as the Wharton ESG Executive Certificate for Senior Leaders. She proudly serves on the AICPA’s Sustainability Assurance and Advisory Task Force as the academic representative. Prior to her academic positions, she was a Tax Director and audit supervisor in the financial service group at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Leveraging her doctoral and post-doctoral studies, Barbara’s research and teaching focuses on sustainability reporting and disclosures and accounting ethics. She is the author of KPMG Ethical Compass: Integrity in Business, a multi-series package of interactive instructional material that enables college professors to present ethics-related topics in their classrooms including topics with sustainability dimensions. The Ethical Compass has won multiple awards and has been used at more than 150 universities across the country and is available on KPMG’s University Connection.
Beyond being the multiple recipient of Fordham University’s Teacher of the Year Award, Barbara has also been recognized nationally. Her academic and professional awards include the Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education Award, National Innovation in Auditing & Assurance Education Award, the National Teaching Innovation Award from the American Accounting Association, NACE Excellence in Teaching Award for KPMG’s Ethical Compass, and National Outstanding Faculty Award by Beta Alpha Psi. She is also the former President of the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association.
Timothy P. Hedley is an executive-in-residence at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. Hedley is responsible for the School’s ESG literacy programs, and he teaches courses in sustainability reporting, business risks in a digital global economy, forensic accounting, managerial accounting, accounting fundamentals, and business ethics.
Hedley is a former partner at a Big Four accounting firm, where he served as the global lead partner for fraud risk management services. As a consultant, Hedley helps clients across a broad range of industries to prevent, detect, and respond to governance and integrity issues. He is also the coauthor of several books published by McGraw Hill: Sustainability Reporting and Disclosures, The New Era of Regulatory Enforcement, and Managing the Risk of Fraud and Misconduct: Meeting the Challenges of a Global, Regulated and Digital Environment.
Hedley currently serves as the chair of the Natural Capital Accounting Principles (NCAP) Governance Committee and NAASB for the Responsible Business Center. He is a former chair of the Connecticut Society of CPAs and founding chair of its ESG Committee. In addition, he serves on the board of the Center for Professional Accounting Practices. A Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, Hedley also is Certified in Financial Forensics. He holds a BBA in accounting from Sienna College and an MS in accounting and a PhD in public management (accounting and control) from the University at Albany, SUNY.