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Sustainability Reporting, 1st Edition

Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan

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Sustainability Reporting 1st Edition by Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan

Overview

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: A CSRD Perspective explains sustainability within accounting and finance. In an accessible, student-friendly manner, the author outlines international reporting standards, their application and the challenges for professionals in this sector.

The text takes an applied approach with many real-world examples, exercises, case studies and discussion points that students need to consider in their careers.

For lecturers, online resources including lecture PowerPoint slides and Instructor’s Manual are available with this textbook.

Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan

Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan is Associate Professor of Accounting at Copenhagen Business School and teaches courses on Perspectives on Governing Sustainable Development and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG): data, accounting and reporting. Having earned her PhD in accounting from CBS in 2005, Caroline has carried out research in the areas of public sector accounting, accounting education, and the last decade sustainability accounting and reporting. Theoretically her research interests include the institutional interplay and the governance of global sustainability reporting practices.
  • Real-world cases featuring international organizations allow learners to apply their theoretical knowledge to contemporary real-life scenarios.
  • Discussion boxes encourage critical and lateral thinking
  • Activities embedded within the chapters help students to consolidate their knowledge and apply pre-existing knowledge in new sustainability-focused scenarios.
  • In line with the learning objectives of each chapter, students can check their understanding with applied end-of-chapter exercises.
  • Online resources are available for this textbook, including PowerPoint slides and an Instructor’s Manual.
1. Introduction
2. Research perspectives on sustainability reporting
3. A global overview of emerging requirements for sustainability reporting
4. Cross cutting standards for sustainability reporting and the value chain
5. General requirements for sustainability reporting and the concept of materiality
6. Environmental reporting Part I: Climate
7. Environmental reporting Part II: Pollution and water and marine resources
8. Environmental reporting Part III: Biodiversity and circular economy
9. Social reporting Part I: Own workforce and workers in the value chain
10. Social reporting Part II: Affected communities and consumers and end-users
11. Governance reporting
12. The financial sector and sustainability reporting
13. Assurance and audit of sustainability reporting
14. Data solutions for sustainability reporting
15. Sustainability reporting in the public sector
16. Educating the future accountant: The role of sustainability reporting