Measuring Sustainability - ACCG260
This unit is a Planet unit and considers how sustainability issues are accounted and reported from organisational, governmental and personal perspectives. The unit engages students with key contemporary sustainability issues such as carbon pollution, water scarcity and human rights. Students investigate practical and theoretical reporting issues, including the location of reporting obligations, setting report boundaries, report content, measurement and assurance. Case studies draw on current developments in the field, including global and national greenhouse gas reporting obligations; water reporting under the Australian national water accounting standards and Macquarie University’s own efforts to undertake sustainability reporting. By completing the unit students will be able to locate key sustainability reporting obligations and reports for both governments and organisations, interpret and critically evaluate existing sustainability reports and identify areas of improvement to measuring sustainability.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Evening - Session 2, North Ryde, Evening S2 External - Session 2, External (On-campus dates: None) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr James Hazelton |
| Prerequisites: |
18cp at 100 level or above
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| Unit Type: | Planet unit |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance Faculty of Business and Economics |
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