Course overview
To enhance students' knowledge of sustainability and business ethics, as well as to develop a critical understanding of contemporary accounting approaches and techniques to measure and report corporate social, economic and environmental performance.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and explain key sustainability and ethical issues and their impact on accounting and reporting practices
- Explain the differences between conventional accounting and sustainability accounting
- Critically analyse the quality of a company's sustainability and integrated reporting
- Evaluate the various carbon pricing approaches and apply carbon management accounting tools to business practices
- Use accounting tools and indicators to evaluate corporate sustainability and ethical performance
- Undertake collaborative research on sustainability issues