308941 (v.1) Accounting (Social Issues) 265

Area:

School of Accounting

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Examines the increasing significance of environmental and social issues to corporate strategic planning and financial performance. Specifically, the unit will address the concepts of triple bottom line reporting, incorporating global reporting initiatives, the development and auditing of ISO 14000 compliant environmental management systems and other corporate governance issues. Focuses upon the measurement and reporting problems inherent to social issues as well as the ethical implications of these issues. Employs a heuristic philosophy incorporating workplace field trips, experiential case studies, guest lectures from key industrial figures and service learning components, all of which is designed to broaden students' thinking and to develop their investigative, analytical, problem solving and communicative skills. Recommended for those students who wish to advance to senior corporate positions.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

080100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Uni Bina Nusantara Indonesia	Semester 2A	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External