How can your organisation balance profits and sustainability?
Today’s businesses can no longer ignore or simply pay lip service to Key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues - key stakeholders expect leading organisations to actively engage and manage these key areas of concern.
This leading edge Coventry Academy training course addresses the fundamental principles and provides the relevant insights to your organisation that needs to develop a sustainable approach to finance that will address these challenges and create value for the organisation, as well as its stakeholders and wider society.
Using proven learning techniques in a participative workshop format, an expert trainer will help you to develop the practical skills that you need to take part in this exciting development in business finance.
What are the goals?
By the end of this Coventry Academy training course, participants will be able to:
Master the aims and principles of sustainable finance
Understand key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues
Identify impact on business and financial strategy
Develop meaningful tools for sustainable finance reporting
Build financial models to assess sustainable finance and other risks
Who is this training course for?
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
Financial reporting team members
Strategy team members
Risk management professionals
Finance managers
Budget managers
Commercial managers
Capital investment and project team members
Course Outline
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 <IR>
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
The certificate
A Coventry Academy Certificate for delegates who attend and complete the online training course