Corporate Social Responsibility
- Leading with ESG
Our country’s many economic and social challenges demand deliberate and immediate action. Based on the input from our people and our continuing legacy of community involvement, we put a stake in the ground and began the process of exploring and championing a continuum of ESG-focused solutions. This included a series of eight firmwide ESG focus groups with our people to help the firm develop a comprehensive ESG strategy as the road map for our efforts moving ahead.
In conjunction with our own ESG initiatives, the firm is also laying the groundwork to deliver strategies and services that can help our clients pursue their own ESG pathways. This includes the roll-out of an assessment process that helps clients develop a strategic framework for ESG decision-making.
A six-step phased methodology is applied in our ESG assessment, with a concentration on identifying and executing ESG strategies. The outcome is an actionable blueprint tailored to meet specific ESG goals, challenges, and requirements.
Sustainability in Our Offices
Beginning more than a decade ago, CCS began taking steps to reduce our impact on the environment. Some were smaller steps, while others were much larger. They included the following:
- Creating a paper-free, electronic document processing system covering most of our tax and audit work, our proposals for new engagements, and the brochures and sell sheets we provide to prospective clients
- Ensuring that all retired technology equipment is e-wasted via a certified Green Recycler
- Storing more data on the cloud, which results in smaller server rooms and HVAC systems and a reduction in energy consumption
- Donating furniture and other items that we no longer need to schools, not-for-profit organizations, and/or recycling them to minimize waste
- Reducing the number of copiers by approximately 50% and the number of printers by approximately 30% when an office relocates
- Providing electric car charging stations in select offices
