268. Accounting for carbon: SAP’s Dominik Asam on the CFO’s role

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Beyond reporting requirements and transparency imperatives, there's a huge financial incentive to manage your company's sustainability activities with data-driven business decision-making. To do so, efforts must be anchored in a data strategy that merges the financial and the ESG analysis. In this episode, Peter Spiller , a partner based in our Frankfurt office who co-leads our efforts in environmentally sustainable operations, speaks with Dominik Asam , Member of the Executive Board and CFO at enterprise planning software giant SAP . Dominik talks about his role in helping steer the company and their customers towards decarbonization, and how to balance the financial ledger with the sustainability 'Green Ledger' in a future-ready way that centers on driving real progress while protecting the bottom line. Related insights Managing carbon: A new role for the CFO Toward the long term: CFO perspectives on the future of finance Reaching net zero-what will it take? McKinsey Insights on Strategy & Corporate Finance McKinsey Strategy & Corporate Finance on LinkedIn Support the show: See for privacy information