Corporate Finance: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Corporate Finance: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Course description

Corporations conduct business activities that have an impact on the environment, peoples' lives, and on notions of ethics and transparency. As a result, corporations have a responsibility to both their shareholders and society to explain their actions and to ensure they are reporting their actions accurately. In this course, Jim Stice and Kay Stice use examples from specific companies to help you better understand environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) reporting, as well as investment strategies conducted with ESG in mind. Jim and Kay also detail ESG activities and reporting practices across different industries, including the food industry, financial services, airlines, and oil and gas.

Learning objectives

• Identify the primary historic obligation of a corporation.
• Determine the appropriate activity in reducing carbon emissions.
• Describe the contents of a good ESG report.
• Explain the reasoning behind the International Sustainability Standards Board creation of ESG reporting standards.
• Define the type of mutual fund that most ESG-responsible companies invest in.
• Review ESG goals and strategies across different companies and industries.

Skills covered in this course

• Sustainable Business Strategies
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
• Natural Resource Economics
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Corporate Finance

Want to learn more? Check our references

• KnowESG interpretation
• ESG Investing
• Environmental, social, and corporate governance
• ESG basis course on LinkedIn