Course Title: Accounting for Sustainable Management

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Accounting for Sustainable Management

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
ACCT2229	City Campus	Postgraduate	615H Accounting	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 2 2021
ACCT2229	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2022, Sem 2 2023, Sem 2 2024
ACCT2230	Open Learning Australia	Non Award	615H Accounting	Distance / Correspondence	OUAS2PG20
ACCT2281	RMIT University Vietnam	Postgraduate	615H Accounting	Face-to-Face	Viet1 2016, Viet3 2018, Viet1 2019, Viet2 2019, Viet1 2020, Viet2 2021
ACCT2281	RMIT University Vietnam	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Face-to-Face	Viet1 2022, Viet3 2022, Viet2 2023, Viet2 2024, Viet3 2024
ACCT2313	RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus	Postgraduate	615H Accounting	Face-to-Face	Viet2 2020

Course Coordinator: Dr Tehmina Khan

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 5704

Course Coordinator Email: tehmina.khan@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 80

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

Course Description

This course is designed to enable you to develop specialised knowledge and skills in sustainable management. The aim is to provide you with an up-to-date understanding of applications of accounting mechanisms that an organisation can put in place to reduce its negative impacts and increase its positive impacts, on the environment and societies in which it operates. The course will also demonstrate that many actions aimed at enhancing an organisation’s contribution to sustainable development can also create positive business benefits for an organisation.

The course is based on both the theory and practice of sustainable management, with a focus on external reporting (e.g. Sustainability Report) as well as internal management (management accounting for sustainability) of an organisation. Through various learning materials and learning activities, you will be encouraged to apply the theoretical learning to real world practice. This course thus offers you a holistic and comprehensive approach to studying accounting for sustainable management.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

CLO1: Critically analyse and evaluate the role of business and accounting in sustainable development.   CLO2: Develop sustainable management approaches by applying advanced knowledge of relevant accounting techniques and sustainability guidelines and initiatives to real-life scenarios in organisations.   CLO3: Research, analyse, design and justify sustainability plans and strategies for businesses in terms of external reporting (e.g., Sustainability Report) and internal strategic planning and evaluation.   CLO4: Explain, critically evaluate and apply established theories within social and environmental accounting to real life business cases.

Overview of Learning Activities

Learning activities may include:

• Key concepts, techniques and their application will be explained and illustrated in lectures, seminars or online notes with opportunities to discuss their use in case study during class and group discussions (including online forums).
• Discussions (including online forums) can be debating, presentation, or role-play, with an aim to explore, critique and form ideas.
• Learner inputs: active and constructive participation in class discussions or online forums is expected in addition to weekly reading and careful planning of assessment tasks.
• Homework tasks will provide opportunities to reinforce your learning and provide a focus for your private study.
• Self-directed information searches and analysis.
• Completion of professional business reports.

Overview of Learning Resources

A range of texts, readings articles, documentaries and internet sources (e.g. YouTube) may be recommended. You will be expected to utilise library and electronic resources, as well as other appropriate resources, to engage in professional reading of relevant literature in accounting and sustainability. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT/Canvas. In addition to topic notes; assessment details and a study schedule you may also be provided with links to relevant online information; readings; audio and video clips and communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and to share information.

Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.

Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows: 

Assessment Task 1: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4

Assessment Task 2: 40%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4

Assessment Task 3: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.