308361 (v.1) Sustainability Management 603 (Accountability and Reporting)

Area:

Division of Resources and Environment

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:

2 x 3 Hours Quarterly

Syllabus:

Issues, concepts and practice in evaluating and reporting on the sustainable development performance of organisations, with particular emphasis on environmental and social performance. Disclosure of sustainability performance is a rapidly developing practice, as organisations stand up to the challenge of having to meet a steep increase in the demand for transparency on social, environmental and economic performance, from a diversifying group of stakeholders (including shareholders, governments, employees, neighbours, business partners and public interest groups. Investigation and development of the business case for external sustainable development reporting, in particular through the greater use of environmental management accounting. Focuses on evolving guidelines for sustainable development reporting, in particular from the Global Reporting Initiative. Students attend a three hour lecture once every three weeks.

** 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:

080399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	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