Sustainability reporting and integrated reporting background company boards executives and management are investing more and more time and resources on issues of sustainability such as carbon greenhouse gas emissions energy efficient technology water use cleantech and biodiversity to name just a few. Sustainability accounting and integrated reporting deals with organizations assessment articulation and disclosure of their social and environmental impact on various groups in society there is increasingly an understanding that financial information does not sufficiently discharge . The paper synthesises insights from contemporary accounting research into integrated reporting ir as a general concept and integrated reporting as espoused by the iirc in the iirc 2013. This chapter provides a brief overview of the book and discusses the likely future of the practice of and research on sustainability accounting and integrated reporting