Triple Bottom Line Accounting & Management

Catalog description

Contemporary business has evolved from concern over just the financial bottom line to a higher level of social responsibility where we account for the true social impact of our business activity. This course explores specific business accounting practices based on economic, environmental and social criteria: “people, planet and profit.” Principles and tools of accounting are fundamental to understanding organizations’ economic story that leaders, investors and stakeholders rely on to make decisions. This course explores the questions: What is being counted? Who is counting? What are the social justice and environmental implications of what and who is left out of the counting? Designed for students who want to become more financially literate– whether in small or large, for profit or not for profit organizations– and who want to think critically about the rules by which business operates.