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.
£150 +VAT
Accounting for a Better World
£150 +VAT
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Accounting for a Better World
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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.
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?
Author
Carol Baker
Carol Baker is Editor-in-Chief at Credit Control Journal and Asset & Risk Review, IT for CEOs & CFOs, and Property Finance & Lifestyle. Carol has been a journalist for a number of years including for ICAEW, the Financial Times, and the Guardian and often works alongside others to uncover corporate financial frauds.
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Emma Strong –
I really enjoyed the variety of each section and fraud stories are always interesting
Mireia Corredor Marcos –
Excellent course. Thank you very much. Please keep your brilliant job up 🙂
Priteshbhai Patel –
Very informative
Relna Vire –
SME’s make up the majority of work places however, they usually do not have the financial or technical resource to adopt may of these suggestions, eg, having an internal audit function is aluxury. There are additional challenges for SMEs in the developing world. This needs to be addressed in courses on sustainability and the accountant’s role
Thomas Morris-Thurgood –
Very fluffy, non specific and repetitive.
Naseer Khan –
Too much unreverent stuff put in .
Libby Herman –
videos are pretty bad.
Richard Smith –
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Ian Moran –
enjoyable course with some good real life examples ,ie HBOS, Enron. Bentley.
Tracy Maidment –
Very interesting reading
Nyasha Mkombo –
Great content
Lindiwe Mutasa –
I learnt a lot
Michael Pain –
New style video content with transcripts
Lin Shin Song –