<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sustainability has become an important issue in the world today for both business and society. As accounting faculty members, it is important that we add aspects of sustainability into accounting classrooms to help prepare students for what they will see in the workplace. The article aims to discuss areas for faculty to share with students the importance of sustainability. The methods of discussing sustainability in the classroom come from the teaching experiences of the authors. Cost, managerial, and intermediate accounting courses, as well as auditing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, serve as conduits for sustainability concepts. Examples include discussing the triple bottom line, examining CSR reports and assurance services for them, talking about required environmental reporting and integrated reporting, and examining green balanced scorecards. The hope is that faculty can help students learn not only accounting but how to be better citizens with a global perspective on sustainability.</p></abstract>

Sustainability has become an important issue in the world today for both business and society. As accounting faculty members, it is important that we add aspects of sustainability into accounting classrooms to help prepare students for what they will see in the workplace. The article aims to discuss areas for faculty to share with students the importance of sustainability. The methods of discussing sustainability in the classroom come from the teaching experiences of the authors. Cost, managerial, and intermediate accounting courses, as well as auditing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, serve as conduits for sustainability concepts. Examples include discussing the triple bottom line, examining CSR reports and assurance services for them, talking about required environmental reporting and integrated reporting, and examining green balanced scorecards. The hope is that faculty can help students learn not only accounting but how to be better citizens with a global perspective on sustainability.

Teaching Sustainability in an Accounting Classroom

Harding University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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Sustainability has become an important issue in the world today for both business and society. As accounting faculty members, it is important that we add...

Teaching Sustainability in an Accounting Classroom

Publicado en línea: 26 may 2018

Páginas: 79 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2018-0006

Palabras clave
sustainability, accounting, intermediate accounting, cost accounting, managerial accounting, auditing

© 2018 Timothy Creel et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Teaching Sustainability in an Accounting Classroom

Publicado en línea: 26 may 2018

Páginas: 79 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2018-0006

Palabras clavesustainability, accounting, intermediate accounting, cost accounting, managerial accounting, auditing

© 2018 Timothy Creel et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
sustainability, accounting, intermediate accounting, cost accounting, managerial accounting, auditing