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Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Undergraduate | USA-ACG38 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
Record sustainable thinking’s impact on accounting and reporting practices. Compare traditional accounting methods and triple bottom line accounting.
Balance sustainable development concerns against the core concepts of corporate sustainability.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
About this subject
- Demonstrate an understanding of sustainability issues in accounting and reporting practices.
- Understand the differences between conventional accounting and triple bottom line accounting.
- Evaluate the quality of a company's sustainability/environmental report.
- Identify and classify environmental costs and impacts.
- Apply environmental costing methods and sustainability indicators.
- Undertake collaborative research on sustainability issues.
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability: An Introduction
- Corporations and Sustainability
- Stakeholders and Sustainability
- Accountability and Theories of Sustainability
- Trends in Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting
- Management Systems for Sustainability
- Integrated Reporting
- Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Expectation Gaps
To introduce students to the fundamental concepts of corporate sustainability and how sustainable development issues influence company accounting and reporting practices, as well as to introduce students to contemporary approaches and techniques to account for a company’s social, economic, and environmental impacts.
- Continuous Assessment (25%)
- 1500 words (25%)
- 4500 words (50%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
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Prior to enrolling, students must have either completed or received credit for 16 OUA subjects of study from the University of South Australia's Bachelor of Accounting.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
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