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KATVAA12
Responsible Business and Social Accounting
Participation in course work - Lectures, individual assignments, group report and written exam
Vastuullinen liiketoiminta
School of Management
Learning outcomes
The student understands the roles of accounting and corporate reporting within CSR, responsible business and sustainability. The student knows the principles of social accounting and how these issues are being communicated to stakeholders. The student is able to evaluate such information from the user’s perspective. The student is also able to conceive the challenges related to representing, estimating and measuring of social performance and impacts of business.
General description
Students will be working together in groups throughout the course, thus you should have enough time for it in your timetable.
Enrolment for University Studies
Teachers
Teaching
Evaluation
Evaluation criteria
Evaluation comprises of a group evaluation (group report and presentations) as well as an indiviudal evaluation (individual assignments and an exam).
Study materials
Blowfield, M. and Murray, A.: Corporate Responsibility (2011 or latest ed.)
Zadek, S., Evans, R. and Pruzan, P.: Building Corporate Accountability: Emerging Practice in Social and Ethical Accounting and Auditing. (2013)
Other assigned material.
Further information
KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. Please notice, that it has to be completed before the beginning of course KATVAA12.