Sustainability accounting and communication

Course outlines:

Module One: 

The content of sustainability reports 

• Attempt to outline the development of the phenomenon
• Explaining the extent and content of sustainability reports
• Possible explanations behind the extent and content of sustainability reporting, i.e., aspects that push organisations to report and to do so in a particular way. 

Module Two:

Challenges with sustainability reporting

• The concerns and criticism that could be – and are – raised towards sustainability reporting. 

Module Three: 

Measuring sustainability part I: An orientation among sustainability indicators

• How sustainability can be measured and 
• The challenges and opportunities associated with this. 
• Indicators

Module Four:

Measuring sustainability part II: Social Return on Investment (SROI) – Understanding to what extent initiatives create value from a sustainability perspective  

• What kind of information that is actually being presented in sustainability reports.
• What kind of information that is missing if one wants to understand if a business or process creates net value from a sustainability perspective. 
• SROI concepts 

Module Five: 

Further investigating conditions for transparency and accountability

• The quality of sustainability reports. 
• The GRI standards 

Module Six: 

Sustainability reporting as a tool for internal change

• The potential of sustainability reporting to act as a catalyst and management tool for advancing sustainability within the organization.