Reading through a few of the local county and California sustainability policy statements, I’m not seeing policies or processes to encourage and support businesses and jobs to start and stay. Without jobs and businesses you lose your economy, people, and tax revenues to other locations. If you lose enough of them, other sustainability efforts will suffer or fail.
Below is an example of one county’s overview of its sustainability policies and efforts. No mention of businesses. Some government sustainability policies do mention businesses; however, in most or many of those circumstances the emphasis is limited to having or forcing the businesses comply with the other sustainability policies and areas – in other words, not an effort to encourage and support businesses and jobs to start and stay.
I have a different view – in addition to the environment, transportation, housing, and other areas, all of which I encourage, a government’s sustainability, ESG, and enterprise risk management (ERM) policies and efforts should specifically include encouraging and supporting businesses and jobs to start and stay.
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The following are copies of the tables of contents of three of the more formal materials that I have written over the years about accounting/auditing, audit committees, and related legal topics – Accounting and Its Legal Implications was my first formal effort, which resulted in a published book that had more of an accounting and auditing focus; Chapter 5A, Audit Committee Functions and Responsibilities, for the California Continuing Education of the Bar has a more legal focus; and the most recent Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide (February 2017) also has a more legal focus:
Accounting and Its Legal Implications
Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide
The following are other summary materials that you might find useful:
From a prior blog post which you can find at https://wp.me/p75iWX-dk if the below scan is too difficult to read:
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A blog discussing the law, D&O, governance, liability and other aspects of public and private businesses, not for profit organizations, and governmental entities – see additional detail below - note: sometimes I post information just to pass it along on these topics (not an endorsement), and sometimes I provide only brief comments or no comments, not a more full discussion. 