IPA Short Course: Accounting for Sustainability
About the courseIt is increasingly becoming an expectation from stakeholders that organisations, including SMEs, publicly report information about their significant social and environmental impacts (both positive and negative), and about the initiatives undertaken by the organisation to address these impacts. The public reporting of social and environmental/sustainability-related performance information is now accepted as an important aspect of managing an organisation, with a failure to do so putting an organisation at a competitive disadvantage.
Accountants need to play a key role in assisting their employer/clients to understand the benefits associated with collecting, analysing and reporting information associated with various aspects of social and environmental performance, as well as identifying and engaging with those stakeholders with an interest in sustainability-related matters. Any quest towards sustainable development - including addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - cannot succeed without the participation of the accounting profession. All accountants, whether working with large or small organisations, have a role to play in encouraging organisations to embrace sustainability-related accountability. |
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Key InformationDate: 30 May - 27 June 2022 Duration: 5 weeks Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Presenter: Craig Deegan Professor of Accounting - The University of Tasmania CPD Hours: 10 Member: $499 Non-Member: $699
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Focus of this courseThis course will focus on various issues associated with the external reporting of information about an organisation's social and environmental impacts (positive and negative), and management of those impacts. It will provide practical knowledge to those individuals seeking to develop reports for their own organisation or for clients (whether the organisation is small, medium, or large in size), an also to those individuals interest in understanding the evolving practice of sustainability reporting. There is no expectation of prior knowledge in relation to sustainability reporting. What will be made clear is that organisations of all sizes should embrace some form of 'accounting for sustainability'. |
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The learning objectives include:
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Learning outcomesThe expectation is that participants will gain sufficient background knowledge to enable them to identify, prioritise, and report various aspects of an organisation’s social and environmental performance. Participants will learn that all organisations (large and small) can, and should, embrace some form of sustainability-related responsibility and accountability. It will be emphasised that this form of reporting does not need to be overly complicated.
At the end of each workshop, participants will be asked to apply (between the workshops) what they have learned from that workshop to an organisation of their choice, and we will commence the next workshop with a short recap and discussion of how participants applied that knowledge to their chosen organisation. Between each workshop, specific practical tasks will be completed by students so that students can see the ‘real world’ applicability of the material being covered.
Competency Area
The course is comprised of 5 modules, each of two hours' duration. |