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In order to pursue the goal of sustainability, corporate and government leaders must manage companies and economies in terms of balancing and optimizing the triple bottom line of social, environmental, and economic impacts. University of West Georgia offers the Triple Bottom Line Accounting programme.

Overview

Key facts

University of West Georgia's Triple Bottom Line Accounting concept, also known as the "3Ps" ("People, Planet, and Profit"), is both a metaphor for thinking about sustainability as well as the basis for a practical framework for accounting and reporting on organizations' activities and impacts. The TBL concept borrows the well-known and widely accepted idea of financial accounting and its "bottom line" and expands it.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Explain the triple bottom line (TBL) concept and its three pillars of "People, Planet, and Profits"
Describe the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) TBL accounting framework
Explain how economic, environmental, and social performance indicators are developed
Discuss how TBL accounting measures an organization's sustainability performance
Outline the criticisms of TBL accounting
Describe best practices for TBL accounting

Key information

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Credits

3 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Accounting View 75 other Short Courses in Accounting in United States

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Tuition Fee

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International

79 USD/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 79 USD for the full programme
National

79 USD/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 79 USD for the full programme

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Triple Bottom Line Accounting