On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an integrative understanding of the theoretical concepts supporting the accounting representations of the sustainability processes.
2. Demonstrate current knowledge of developments in thinking about sustainability as a concept.
3. Work independently and collaboratively in critically analysing problem scenarios and employing conceptual social learning constructs to formulate solutions.
4. Identify, analyse, evaluate and communicate information reflective of emergent accounting approaches and contexts.
5. Incorporate economic, social and ecological sustainability within personal and future professional practice.

The course includes the following topic areas:
1. What is sustainable development? Linking the economy to society and the environment in the context of history of connection between ecology and culture.
2. Overview of components of the sustainability discourse: Measurements (carbon footprint, foodmiles), Market mechanisms (Emissions Trading), Regulatory tools (Carbon tax, Environmental protection agency), bottom-up participation via social learning.
3. Theoretical constructs to engage with (1) and (2): Uncertainty in science of climate change, Beck's risk society, Arygris' double loop learning, Simons' concept of bounded rationality, Newell's psychology of decision making, critical discourse analysis of stakeholder accounts and emergent frameworks of holistic accountability.
4. Measuring consequences of human activities: critique of existing frameworks e.g. conventional accounting, cost benefit analysis, corporate social reporting and triple bottom line accounting.
5. Measuring consequences of human activities: an examination of emergent vehicles of measurement.
6. Accounting and eco-innovation.
7. Benchmarking for sustainability: is it relevant?
8. Waste and sustainability: exploring the connection.
9. Reshaping business ethics to link the economy to society and the environment: Ulrich's Integrative Economic Ethics.
10.Auditing environmental management systems: a universal concept.
11.Governance and climate change: Risk and responsibility (Bulkeley, 2001).

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ACFI2003 Management Accounting

Internal Mode

Lecture
Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Seminar: for 2 hour(s) per Week for 12 weeks