CANCELLED - Accounting and Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance

This course will introduce the sustainable development and corporate social responsibility agendas to participants in an informative and interactive manner, including hands-on examination of corporate social responsibility reports. The important issue of accounting and reporting for carbon will also be explored.

WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF IT?
• understanding of the sustainable development and corporate social responsibility agendas and how they will affect business in the future
• appreciation of the characteristics of corporate social responsibility reporting
• understanding of how carbon accounting, reporting and regulation will evolve in the future
• ability to apply these principles in case study and group exercises.

KEY FEATURES
• the sustainable development agenda and the role of corporate social responsibility within that agenda
• how sustainable development and corporate social responsibility concepts will impact upon business in general and your organisation or clients in particular
• introduce corporate social responsibility reporting – its context, form, benefits and development issues
• tools for evaluating the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility reporting
• outline of carbon markets and carbon accounting and reporting.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Senior managers and accountants who have responsibility for or feed into corporate governance functions would find this course particularly valuable.  Those working in investor relations or stakeholder management, and any accountant who wishes to understand this fast moving, influential and wide-ranging agenda.

LECTURER
Professor Jan Bebbington MCom (Hons), PhD, FCCA, Professor of Accounting and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews