Accounting for a Better World
Discover ways that as an accountant, you can take the lead in becoming a potential force for good in a business. Explore how to develop a growth mindset that will transform relationships and how to foster a culture of accountability and transparency that supports business resilience and growth.
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This course will enable you to
- Help counteract fraud and corruption and maintain an ethical outlook
- Understand what climate change is, its impact on businesses and the problem of greenwashing
- Establish an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy
- Develop a sustainable business model and measure sustainability
- Recognise technology’s role in environmental considerations
About the course
As an accountant, you have a key role to play in making the world a better place. Whether involved in helping to combat fraud and corruption, improving climate-related disclosures in annual accounts, measuring and managing carbon emissions, creating sustainable businesses, or simply providing an ethical foundation for a business, you are at the heart of the business and a potential force for good.
Discover the various ways you, as an accountant, can take a lead role in the drive towards a more sustainable and fair economy. You'll explore how to develop a growth mindset that will transform relationships and you’ll understand how to foster a culture of accountability and transparency that supports business resilience and growth.
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Contents
- Being the force for change
- Saving the world
- How to save the world
- Using real-time dashboards
- Driving climate reporting
- Biodiversity and standards
- Creating a more sustainable business
- Being taken seriously
- Addressing climate change
- Understanding climate change
- How are companies adapting?
- Reversing the effects of climate change
- The Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact
- What is greenwashing?
- Watching out for greenwashing
- How accountancy can become green
- Creating a sustainable business
- How to operate sustainably
- Developing sustainability plans and goals
- Making sustainability a priority
- Putting together a sustainable business model
- Developing a sustainable business model
- Measuring sustainability
- Embracing technology
- A wake-up call for the world
- Creating a better world
- Document management systems – the green solution
- Data, data, everywhere
- Counteracting Fraud and Corruption
- Preventing fraud and economic crimes
- How can accountants help to identify fraud?
- Resetting the moral compass of the enemy within
- Money laundering – why be concerned?
- Engaging with the developing world
- Spotting fraud and corruption
- Anti-corruption laws
- Being ethical and accountable
- Technology for sustainable change
- With sustainability comes accountability
- Being an ethical accountant
- Accountants and ethical compromise
- What makes a business ethical?
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