Sustainability: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting
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Sustainability: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 2 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,834 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Credential | Certificate |
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Sustainability: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting at FutureLearn Highlights
- Earn a certificate from Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT)
Sustainability: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting at FutureLearn Course details
- Stakeholders are increasingly demanding to know details of the sustainability strategy of companies as well as requests for non-financial data. Determining these information requirements and how best to provide them is a challenge for sustainability and finance teams.
- This two-week course will help you understand the importance of non-financial data and how organisations such as rating agencies use this information to make an assessment of ESG related risks.
- You'll explore the challenges with getting the right types of data and how to avoid claims of greenwashing. You'll also learn how the main credit rating agencies and ESG specialist firms apply their own methodologies to create ESG scores and ratings.
- Building on our previous courses and, this course will take your finance knowledge to the next level.
- You'll start by unpacking the importance of communicating your sustainability strategy as you explore examples of corporate communication.
- To help a business achieve its objectives it's important to have a 2nd party opinion and 3rd party assurance.
- On the course, you'll learn the techniques to select an appropriate opinion/assurance provider.
- Throughout the course, you'll be guided by the specialist at ACT to gain the confidence to lead and support discussions with rating agencies and professional advisors, enhancing your career prospects in the finance sector.
Sustainability: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting at FutureLearn Curriculum
The importance of reporting on sustainability strategy and performance
Introduction to the course
The importance of communicating your sustainability strategy
Key reporting frameworks
Performance indicators
Selecting sustainability related data
Summary of Week 1
How sustainability strategy and performance is used by stakeholders
Introduction to Week 2
Background to credit rating agencies
How credit rating agencies assess ESG risks
The role played by non-credit rating agencies in assessing ESG risks
Designing a sustainability communications operating model
Examples of good practice in communicating a sustainability strategy
Examples of good practice within ESG corporate reporting
Course summary and assessment
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