Reference no: EM133753169
Sustainability, ESG and Business Ethics
Master of Professional Accounting
Company name :- Kmart and target
Assessment Objective - develop a deeper understanding of comparing, contrasting, and analysing sustainability reporting of two Australian companies considering ESG and business ethics, ethical decision-making, and the practical application of sustainability and ethical principles. Students will use their important skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and environmental and ethical reasoning, in devising their reporting.
Instruction:
This assessment must be completed in a group setting.
You are required to develop a formal group report through class discussion during tutorial time in the class, showcasing sustainability reporting.
Form a group of 3 students during week three session and provide a list of group members to your lecturer.
In week 3, your group must identify and select two Australian companies, illustrates various aspects of business ethics and sustainability reporting, whether in the breach or observance. Students must include the disclosure of a company's performance on environmental, social, and governance goals and communicating both company's progress and efforts to reach those goals by measuring, evaluating, and managing performances.
Students must explain the background, details of the actual case study, sustainability reporting is at stake, and why the practices identified created an environmental and ethical concern. The draft your group gives your lecturer will assist in clarifying your thoughts about the cases and how you will go about comparing your sustainability reporting.
Students must schedule group meetings in weeks 3 and 4 to prepare a draft report.
Every group member MUST contribute equally to the preparation and presentation of the materials. All group members should collaborate, respectfully communicate, share ideas and participate in collective decision making. Each member must share work uniformly.
Students MUST address the following in their report. (Failure to address any point will result in deduction of marks for every group member).
- Background and details of the actual case studies.
- Identify environmental and ethical issues of concern with respect to both the organization.
- Examine the situation that led to the concern.
- Provide an explanation of how the issue/s came about.
- Determine the consequences of non-compliance environmental, social and governance and the ethical issue on stakeholders and the organization.
- Conduct an evaluation of issues considering the relevant legal/regulatory/advisory frameworks.
- Make suggestions on appropriate remedial actions/policy and procedure changes to address the situation.