Sustainability accounting and communication

Introduction:

The production of that organization’s sustainability reports, deciding and justifying what to report and how to report it, which also may furthermore give rise to reflections and new ideas on how to conduct and manage operations within the organization, making the sustainability report an important internal management tool. 

Sustainability accounting and communication can hence be seen both as a product and as a process. From a product perspective, sustainability accounting and communication concerns the tangible report that illustrates an organization’s work and impact regarding, for example, environment, human rights and corruption. From a process perspective, sustainability accounting and communication concerns the processes of producing and using the report. 

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Analyze organizations’ sustainability reports 
• Describe the emergence of organizations’ sustainability accounting and communication
• Critically reflect upon the relationship between, on the one hand, sustainability accounting and communication, and, on the other hand, organizations’ activities
• Critically reflect upon possibilities and difficulties associated with using sustainability accounting as a means to change individual and organizational practices