Training Course in Sustainable Finance for Finance Managers

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

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

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)

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 

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