Course Content
About this course
Accountants and finance professionals have an important part to play in helping organisations adapt to the sustainable practices required to prevent resource depletion, facilitate long term success, and build a more sustainable future. The Certificate in Sustainability for Finance will allow finance teams to gain the skills and knowledge to enable them to confidently lead on sustainability issues in their organisations.
Course Objectives
By completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define sustainability and sustainable development
- explain why sustainability is important to society, to organisations, and to finance professionals
- evaluate business value chains, business models and business practices for sustainability and related issues
- define climate change risks and the associated financial implications, and understand the reporting frameworks for climate risk disclosures
- explain the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), their significance for organisations in terms of risks and opportunities and the definitions of impact
- explain why ESG issues are important for your organisation and evaluate processes and systems for collecting, analysing and reporting ESG information
- explain why sustainability analytics is important for your organisation and evaluate the approach for compiling, analysing and interpreting ESG data.
- Understand the global challenges of sustainable development and how business organisations can help meet these challenges
- Understand sustainability reporting frameworks
- Understand how the Science Based Targets initiative, and Big Data, contribute to sustainability
- Understand responsible investment principles.
Target Audience
This certificate is for finance professionals and accountants who want to upskill themselves in how to implement Sustainability in their organisation and optimise the value generated by the finance function.
There are no formal educational requirements to begin the certificate.
If you already have professional accountancy qualifications, this certificate can be a valuable source of CPD. It also provides an opportunity to top up existing competencies with specific knowledge and skills around sustainability.
If you don’t currently hold any professional accountancy qualifications, you can benefit from the opportunity to gain formal recognition of your capabilities.
Venue & Dates
Date: 22 – 23 May 2025
