SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING

“Accounting for sustainability involves linking sustainability initiatives to company strategy, evaluating risks and opportunities, and providing measurement, accounting, and performance management skills to ensure that sustainability is embedded into the day-to-day operations of the company."
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

As a sustainability accountant, you will use all your company's accounting information, from production costs to revenues, to increase your company's efficiency and keep it in line with its stated goal as well as keep the sustainability of the company by measuring, analysing and reporting a company's social and environmental impacts for the long term return.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The profession is highly prized by companies with a focus on management reports needed by internal stakeholders (managers, directors, commissioners, employees, and business owners). Your work will be required to evaluate the company's performance both financially and non-financially and to calculate production costs.

In addition to focusing on company profits, now companies have also recognized and implemented the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) concept, namely: Profit (Finance), People (Social), and Planet (Environment), with the aim that the company can continue to operate sustainably.

Students can improve their competence by taking additional certifications at the national or international level to support their profession, such as Certified Professional Management Accountant (CPMA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) Australia, and many more.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Taking the Sustainability Accounting program will open many doors and options for your career.

Upon graduation, you can be:

• Management Accountant
• Sustainability Analyst
• Business Analyst
• Financial Consultant
• Financial Analyst
• Government Accountant

LEARNING MODELS

By learning cost accounting in calculating the cost of production and determining the selling price of products or services, you will understand its relation to sustainability accounting and make a simple sustainability report. Inaddition, you will also learn accounting practices using accounting software.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

In this program, you will learn about management accounting and financial and political accountability ethics and receive seminars on sustainability accounting.

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