Don’t Delay Your Climate Reporting!
The recent court decision to delay enforcement of the California climate reporting law (SB261) has companies asking, “What next?”. The law, which was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2026, requires public reporting for public and private companies doing business in California. Our advice is to finish your report, on time, and then […]
Winifred Pinet to Present at Northern Ohio AFP Idea Exchange
Sycamore Associates is pleased to support the 2025 Northern Ohio AFP Idea Exchange with two sessions. In the morning, Win Pinet, Sycamore Associates President, will discuss how to accelerate use of automated solutions with Mary Hayat, Director of Accounting at Dealer Tire LLC. The session is titled: Let’s Bring our AI Game…Automation, Innovation, and AI. […]
Our 2024 Book of the Year
Our Sycamore book of the year for 2024 is All that She Carried, the Journey of Ashley’s Sack by Tiya Miles. Meticulously researched, this history of a fabric artifact affords the reader a window into the immense scale of those whose stories have gone unheard and whose impact we may never know. Miles weaves the […]
Win Pinet moderates panel at Northern Ohio AFP’s Idea Exchange
Scaling the Mountain of Treasury and Finance Transformation: Challenges and Successes at the Dealer Tire Family of Companies Why is transformation so challenging and so rewarding? We have all encountered opportunities to enact change within our organizations, and it seldom goes exactly as planned…but is it worth the effort? Join a panel of experts […]
Why the Board Needs Sustainability Education
Recently, Win Pinet was a panelist for a webinar discussing the need for Board-level education on sustainability. The event was sponsored by the Michigan Ross School of Business and Ceres (ceres.org). Pinet comments: “Board level oversight can only be effective if board members are well versed in the challenges and opportunities presented by the need […]
New Rules, New Opportunities
The recent SEC rule has clarified to some extent the requirements for publicly-reporting companies when it comes to climate risk. For now, Scope 1 and 2 are in focus, and many companies will have their hands full meeting these requirements. According to a recent Standard & Poor’s survey, fully 36% of surveyed companies are not […]
Does the California Climate Law apply to your company?
In October of 2023, California passed first-in-the-nation climate reporting requirements that will extend to private companies and to mid-sized businesses, in addition to publicly reporting companies. Read more in this analysis from Deloitte: The Sweeping Impacts of California’s Climate Legislation
ESG: Three Perspectives on Risk, Regulation, Reporting, and the Road Ahead
Join us at AFP in San Diego on October 23rd as Winifred Pinet moderates a panel discussion on ESG. Panelists include Matt Bittner, Chief People Officer and Partner at Dealer Tire, LLC, Suhayl Meghji, Climate Solutions Specialist at Persefoni, and Marcia Banks, Deputy Director, International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers. Their experience and reflection on […]
Sycamore Associates to present at the AFP National Conference in October 2023
We are honored to be selected as presenters at the Association for Financial Professionals National Conference, October 22-25, in San Diego! We will let you know more about our session as the time grows closer. Join us!
“Four Hundred Souls” Named Sycamore Associates 2023 Book of the Year
Four Hundred Souls, a Community History of African America, 1619 – 2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, has been named the Sycamore Associates Book of the Year for 2023. “This collection of essays by Black writers, scholars, poets, and sages, is essential reading. Illuminating the complex and crushing weight of inequality, racism, […]