Strategic themes:
Internationalisation,
Sustainable development
Learning outcomes
The student understands the role of accounting in society and knows of its limits and possibilities from various perspectives. The student is able to analyse the presumptions and philosophical foundations of accounting and accounting information. The student is able to assess and make critical interpretations of the impacts accounting information has on societies. The student is able to critically evaluate corporate accounting and reporting from the economic, social and environmental perspectives. The student knows how the knowledge of critical accounting can be put to practice.
Contents
Current issues and related theories are discussed in a seminar and a reading group.
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Lectures
Seminar
Study Group
The course will be organised every other academic year.
Teaching language
English,
Finnish
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Participation in classroom work, excercisesParticipation in course work
In
Finnish
In
English
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Further information
The study unit is organised every second year, in spring 2016 and spring 2018.