Accounting for a Better World

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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.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Accounting for a Better World

£100 +VAT

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

Accounting for a Better World

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

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?

How it works

Author

Carol Baker

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.