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In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, the integration of sustainability considerations into investment and financial decision-making has become paramount. This course offers a comprehensive exploration of sustainable reporting practices and how they contribute to informed financial and investment choices. This course equips students with the knowledge and skills required to navigate the intersection of sustainability and finance, while emphasizing the practical application of sustainability reporting standards and assurance.
Professional skills:
- Be able to understand investments and its key driving factors, and different asset classes.
- Be able to understand the sustainability information provided by disclosure.
- Be able to use sustainability information for financial decision making.
- Be able to understand and describe the objective of sustainable finance and distinguish certain subgroups of it.
Social and personal skills:
- Analyze smaller projects independently or in groups, work on them constructively and generate solutions that can be implemented in practice.
- Identify the core of a problem and refer to scientific articles for problem solving.
- Be able to critically reflect and discuss challenges and problems of sustainability reporting and assurance and develop potential solutions to these problems.
- Be able to communicate in the classroom clearly, concisely, and logically.
Skills in scientific work:
- Read and critically evaluate subject-specific literature.
- Apply and evaluate methods and investments in a narrowed field of financial economics.
- Understand the concepts and models necessary to evaluate sustainable finance and alternative investments.
The course is designed to encourage an interactive and collaborative learning environment. The course emphasizes active participation through discussions and presentations, encouraging students to engage deeply with the material.
- Final seminar thesis carried out in groups of students (20%)
- Presentation on case study, carried out in groups of students (40%)
- Quizzes related to student presentations (20%)
- In-class participation during theory sessions(20%)
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