The Course Content
Day One: Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance
Principles and foundation of sustainable finance
Environmental issues and concerns
Social issues and concerns
Governance issues and concerns
Ethical issues and concerns
Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance
Day Two: Sustainable Strategic Management
Concepts of stakeholder value
The purpose of competitive companies
Principles and practice in corporate governance
Redefining competitive business strategy
Understanding business models and their disruption
Identifying key success factors
Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators
Day Three: Accounting and Reporting Sustainable Finance
The traditional financial analysis toolkit
Conventional measures of stakeholder value
Selecting the right key performance measures
Designing internal reports on sustainable finance
Principles of Integrated Reporting
Day Four: Business Investment and Sustainable Finance
The challenges of sustainable investment
Scenarios for business model reinvention
Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment
Traditional tools of investment appraisal
Factoring in the environmental and social dimension
Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods
Day Five: Risk and Scope of Sustainable Finance
Traditional approaches to understanding business risk
Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective
Sustainable finance developments in banking
Sustainable finance developments in financial investments
Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions
The way forward in sustainable finance