Sustainability and Financial Management, BSFM
The Bachelor of Sustainability and Financial Management (BSFM) is offered jointly by the School of Accounting and Finance in the Faculty of Arts and the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development in the Faculty of Environment. The program leverages existing courses from both faculties and new co-created courses focused on the joint discipline of sustainability and financial management. The program is based on an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing team and problem-based pedagogies. Students will receive foundational training in accounting, finance and sustainability, which they will leverage in an integrated framework to critically address “wicked problems” facing business and society such as climate change, water security, biodiversity protection, and inclusion and equality. Students will acquire critical leadership, followership, communication, and collaboration competencies as they work in diverse teams on real-world problems, developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills and the confidence to make decisions in abstract contexts with imperfect information. The program has a strong focus on enabling informed decision-making via data analytics, training data-savvy graduates who can engage in predictive analytics and statistical methods to interpret and better understand the sustainability-related impacts of decision making.