CPA Australia
Sustainability: Adapting Operations for the Future
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Beginner
- Duration: 5 hours
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $519.75
Equip yourself to align your organisation’s sustainability goals with topics that help you master essential techniques while focusing on real-world applications through case studies.
Course overview
CPA Australia’s Micro-Credentials are based on technical and non-technical competencies and align with our Accounting and Finance Capability Framework. Our partner, Credly, will provide you with a digital badge to complete the assessment. Your digital badge demonstrates your capability and achievement and can be placed on your LinkedIn profile, digital CV, or email signature.
Unlock the future of responsible business with Sustainability: Adapting Operations for the Future. Dive into the key value drivers for sustainability - financial, strategic, operational and regulatory. Explore global regulations and voluntary standards shaping organisational strategies and learn how to implement effective environmental and social management systems, utilising frameworks and tools to assess impacts and risks.
This five-hour interactive course includes content, videos and activities that will help you understand how to set up your organisation for success regarding the key value drivers of sustainability.
Featuring examples and real-world applications provided by industry experts and financial leaders to embed the learning and bring the content to life, through this course, you will gain the requisite tools and techniques that are increasingly important in modern finance roles.
This highly interactive course, focusing on various industries, includes activities, videos and simulations to keep you actively engaged.
Key facts
What you will study
Drivers of Sustainability
- Explore the primary value drivers for sustainability, including financial, strategic, operational, reputational and regulatory drivers and the various standards and frameworks that support operational sustainability.
Environmental and Social Management Systems
- Learn about the various environmental and social management systems that support an organisation’s sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities.
Decision-making Tools and Techniques
- Discuss the tools and techniques available to manage environmental sustainability topics, including ISO standards, management systems and accounting methods such as full-cost accounting and life cycle assessments.
Performance Measurement and Control Systems
- Discover the most appropriate performance measurement and management control systems to support your organisation’s achievement of sustainability objectives and targets and how these systems can be used to align performance with objectives.
This course consists of one online course with a PDF learning manual and one online assessment.
What will you learn
- Apply frameworks, methods and tools to address sustainability impacts on an organisation’s products and processes.
- Recommend appropriate performance measurement and management control systems that support achieving sustainability objectives.
Who should attend
This course is suited to finance and accounting professionals looking to apply best-practice approaches to integrating sustainability to facilitate long-term sustainable growth.