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Summary
Is the accounting industry ready for the future? Growth strategies are transforming along with business challenges and volatile markets. Learn how new reporting sustainability metrics, rising interest rates in the banking landscape, and new regulations are impacting accounting firms and professionals.
Join experts from S&P Global and KPMG for a candid discussion on:
- What strategies should accounting firms follow to drive growth?
- How sustainability reporting is changing accounting firm operations, talent retention, new investments, and audit practices long-term
- How firms are dealing with the liquidity crisis in the banking sector and what new key metrics should be monitored
- How KPMG is positioning ESG and sustainability while thinking about the new future
CPE Credit Information
Subject Area: Accounting
Course Level: Overview
Instructional Method: Group Internet Based
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
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Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Brendan Rampi
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Head of Strategic Accounts – Professional Services
Brendan Rampi is the Head of Strategic Accounts for S&P Global Market Intelligence, responsible for managing our largest relationships within the greater Professional Services segment.
Brendan Rampi is the Head of Strategic Accounts for S&P Global Market Intelligence, responsible for managing our largest relationships within the greater Professional Services segment. He manages a team of 15 professionals across the country, who provide a white-global service to our key PS partners.
During his nearly 13-year tenure at SPGMI, he has spent time focusing on new client engagements across various industries like the Corporate and IB/PE/VC markets in addition to Professional Services and has also taken on new acquisition integration initiatives when called upon.
Brendan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College, where he majored in Economics, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, focusing on Finance, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Strategy.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Nathan Stovall
Head of FIG Research
Nathan Stovall, with 17 years' experience covering the banking sector, is a principal analyst for the FIG Research offering of S&P Global Market Intelligence. His primary responsibilities include covering and analyzing financial institutions, with a focus on the banking industry.
He is the author of the banking blog, Street Talk, and host of the podcast by the same name. His in-depth analysis of the banking industry, including a focus on community banks, can be found on SPGMI's Research & Analysis feature, which includes historical and forward-looking performance figures.
During his tenure, he has regularly covered and participated on the conference circuit, moderating panels and webinars focused on major issues facing banks. He has spoken as industry events as well, offering updates on bank fundamentals, market conditions and forecasts for what lies ahead. He has been quoted in a number of trade publications and the national press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times and has appeared on Fox Business News and NPR's Planet Money.
Nathan holds a Bachelor of Arts degrees from Washington & Lee University, where he majored in business journalism
Maura Hodge
KPMG US
ESG Audit Leader, Partner
Maura Hodge is the ESG Audit Leader for KPMG in the U.S. and an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office.
Maura Hodge is the ESG Audit Leader for KPMG in the U.S. and an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office.
She has more than a decade of experience providing ESG reporting, and assurance services coupled with nearly 20 years of experience providing audit and internal control opinions on financial information for companies ranging from venture-backed private companies to the Fortune 100. Because of this background, she sits at the nexus of ESG strategy and reporting and regularly speaks with the media and clients to educate and advise on practical next steps.
In addition, Maura is developing and overseeing initiatives to upskill KPMG professionals in ESG to support the embedding of ESG into all of KPMG’s services as well as supporting KPMG’s own impact strategy and reporting.
Maura has served as KPMG’s liaison to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). She contributes to KPMG’s views with respect to responses to the SEC, standard setting for the IFRS Foundation’s ISSB, FASB and the AICPA Sustainability Task Force and supports KPMG International member firms with ESG assurance of U.S. components. She is a member of KPMG’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Technical Topic Team, a 14-member global team that monitors regulatory changes on sustainability reporting, provides input to KPMG comment letters, develops guidance and thought leadership related to the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the ISSB and liaises across KPMG for consistent message on ESG reporting.
As a licensed CPA, Maura is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). She was named a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2017, an MSCPA Woman to Watch – Emerging Leader in 2018 and to Accounting Today’s Top 100 in Accounting in 2022. She is an expert Panel member for Accounting for Sustainability (A4S). She holds a Master's degree in Accounting and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.
S&P Global Sustainable1
Lisa Hendrickson
S&P Global Energy Horizons
Head of U.S. Corporates
Lisa Hendrickson is an award-winning innovative strategist best known for her simple elegant solutions to complex business problems.
Lisa Hendrickson is an award-winning innovative strategist best known for her simple elegant solutions to complex business problems. She is co-author of “Boom! Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die.” In her current role as Head of U.S. Corporates at S&P Global Horizons, Ms. Hendrickson helps large multinational organizations fulfill on their sustainability goals using data to inform their risks and opportunities.
Prior, she was the COO of HCC, a pioneering values-driven sustainable design and manufacturing company located in NYC.
Under her leadership, the company grew to become one of the fastest growing inner-city companies in America and a luxury market leader garnering numerous awards including an ICIC 100 award (a Michael E. Porter organization). She is an Adjunct Professor at FIT where she is a founding member of the Sustainable Design Program and teaches The Sustainable Organization and The Purpose Driven Company.
She has been featured in the New York Times, CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s World News Tonight, BBC World Business Report, CNBC, MSN, WWD, Fast Company, and many other fine news outlets.
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