The University of Birmingham has become the first UK university to mainstream climate change into an accountancy and finance degree.
Led by Professor Ian Thomson (pictured), along with Dr Mayya Konovalova and Dr Madlen Sobkowiak, the new vertically integrated BSc degree syllabus, was the recent winner of the Birmingham Business School Responsible Business Award.
Professor Ian Thomson said: “Greta Thunberg was correct in what she said in Glasgow. It is an undisputable fact that business cannot carry on as normal if we are to effectively fight climate change and reach the government’s target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. This means that every student studying accountancy and finance should know how to account for climate change.”
The university believes students embarking on their journey to become accountants can help to future proof their own careers and the organisations they go to work for thanks to the changes it has brought into the accountancy course.
The integration of climate change into the course has become a major selling point for the degree programme, with perspective students hearing about the updates at offer holders’ days this year, the first of which was this week.
For more go to: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/business/accounting-finance.aspx
