Sustainability Accounting and Management

The Accounting module aims to deliver the students the key concepts to develop knowledge and skills in cost accounting, understanding the main financial statements, and link these financial documents with sustainability reporting and with social and environmental performance measurement.
The Environmental Management module aims to develop knowledge about the management of the environmental standards related to products and processes, the management of environment-related technologies, the management of sustainable supply chain networks and the lifecycle assessment.

At the end of the course the student must be able to understand how an organization can impact on society and the environment and develop tools that can effectively manage and prevent these impacts. Moreover, the student must be able to understand the principles of the circular economy and new business models oriented not only to optimize economic performances but especially social and environmental ones with a view to sustainability, ethics and engagement of all stakeholders. During the course project works will be developed, case studies will be analyzed and written tests will be carried out to test the student's learning in the different phases of the course.