Course Description:

business world responsible organisations can no longer simply pay lip service to key global sustainability challenges like climate change, resource exhaustions, and inequality; investors and key stakeholders expect them to engage and actively manage the organisations impact in these areas. This leading-edge Sustainable finance training course will provide you with the fundamental principles and the relevant tools and insights you will need to help your organisation 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.

 

Objectives

By the end of this Sustainable Finance 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

 

Course Outline

DAY 1

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 2

 

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 3

 

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 4

 

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 5

 

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