CURRENT ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO ESG STANDARDS IN UKRAINE
Purpose. The study aims to determine the relationship between the integrated ESG index and the company's financial performance. Based on the set goal, our tasks were: the approbation of the toolkit to confirm the hypothesis regarding the presence of a positive relationship between the ESG index and the company‟s return on assets (ROA). Also, we seek to confirm or refute the hypothesis that companies with a higher return on assets more often implement initiatives based on ESG principles and are more socially responsible market participants than their competitors.