Corporate Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

by John Taylor

Nowadays, stakeholders want a financially successful business that is also ethical, and sustainable. This course explores key principles involved in ethics, sustainability, and governance and how your organisation can adopt them.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Establish an ethical corporate culture in your organisation
  • Enhance the sustainability of your organisation through a range of measures and reporting initiatives
  • Recognise the principles of governance and the importance of ethical compliance
  • Boost transparency within your organisation
  • Consider the systems and process necessary for encouraging ethical behaviour in your organisation

About the course

Nowadays, stakeholders are looking for something more than a financially successful business. They want a business that makes the right choices. A business that is ethical, and sustainable. So, how can you guide decision makers to make choices which do not harm and possibly benefit the organisation?

This course provides insight into the key principles, systems and processes that will enhance your organisation’s ethical behaviour and promote sustainability. It will enable your organisation to make ethical and sustainable decisions that fully consider the consequences for your organisation as well as stakeholders and the wider environment.

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Contents

  • What sort of organisation are we?
    • Doing the right thing
    • Building an ethical corporate culture
    • The benefits of ethical values in business
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Key factors in building trust
    • Corporate social responsibility in action
    • Varying degrees of ethical behaviour
    • Bending the rules
    • Creating the right corporate culture
  • Sustainability
    • The emergence of sustainability
    • The benefits of sustainability
    • Stakeholder theory and the triple bottom line
    • The Global Reporting Initiative
    • Measuring change
    • ESG standards
    • The UN six principles for responsible investment
    • Developing a sustainable business
    • Sustainability reporting
  • Governance
    • What is governance?
    • Transparency
    • Building a compliance culture
  • Systems and processes
    • The basis of ethical culture
    • Communicating a more ethical culture
    • Management and employees
    • Supply chain oversight
    • Conflict within the organisation
    • Conflict resolution
    • The internal vs external face

How it works

Author

John Taylor

John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: ‘Millichamp - Auditing’ and ‘Forensic Accounting’. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.

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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
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Course

Need just a few unitshourshours?

Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours4 unitshourshours
Access period120 days
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs

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All you need for this year's CPD.

Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours21 units20 hours21 hours
Access period120 days
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
Learn more

Team

Keep your whole team up to date.

Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours800+ unitshourshours
Access period12+ months
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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