Corporate Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

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Nowadays, stakeholders want a financially successful business that is also ethical, and sustainable. This course explores key principles involved in ethics, sustainability, and governance and how your organisation can adopt them.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Corporate Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Corporate Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Establish an ethical corporate culture in your organisation
  • Enhance the sustainability of your organisation through a range of measures and reporting initiatives
  • Recognise the principles of governance and the importance of ethical compliance
  • Boost transparency within your organisation
  • Consider the systems and process necessary for encouraging ethical behaviour in your organisation

About the course

Nowadays, stakeholders are looking for something more than a financially successful business. They want a business that makes the right choices. A business that is ethical, and sustainable. So, how can you guide decision makers to make choices which do not harm and possibly benefit the organisation?

This course provides insight into the key principles, systems and processes that will enhance your organisation’s ethical behaviour and promote sustainability. It will enable your organisation to make ethical and sustainable decisions that fully consider the consequences for your organisation as well as stakeholders and the wider environment.

Contents

What sort of organisation are we?

Doing the right thing
Building an ethical corporate culture
The benefits of ethical values in business
Corporate social responsibility
Key factors in building trust
Corporate social responsibility in action
Varying degrees of ethical behaviour
Bending the rules
Creating the right corporate culture

Sustainability

The emergence of sustainability
The benefits of sustainability
Stakeholder theory and the triple bottom line
The Global Reporting Initiative
Measuring change
ESG standards
The UN six principles for responsible investment
Developing a sustainable business
Sustainability reporting

Governance

What is governance?
Transparency
Building a compliance culture

Systems and processes

The basis of ethical culture
Communicating a more ethical culture
Management and employees
Supply chain oversight
Conflict within the organisation
Conflict resolution
The internal vs external face

How it works

Author

John Taylor

John Taylor

John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: Millichamp – Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.