This course teaches you to calculate how sustainability work affects the business and profitability. The aim of the course is to give you the skills to produce decision material for company initiatives where sustainability and commercial sense go hand in hand. During the day we go through, among other things, a step-by-step method for calculating how different types of sustainability projects affect the company's profitability directly and indirectly.
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Language: Swedish
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About the course.
This course teaches you to calculate how sustainability work affects the business and profitability. The aim of the course is to give you the skills to produce decision material for company initiatives where sustainability and commercial sense go hand in hand. During the day we go through, among other things, a step-by-step method for calculating how different types of sustainability projects affect the company's profitability directly and indirectly.
Sustainable development is a fateful question for humanity and is becoming increasingly strategically important for companies in all industries. Many are convinced that investments in the environment, climate and social responsibility are in most cases good for business. At the same time, an uncertain world forces many companies to prioritise short-term profitability over sustainability projects that are important in the long term.
This course aims to teach you how to turn a sustainability project into business value and how much the project actually contributes to increased profitability and cash flow.
During the day we go through a step-by-step method for calculating the company's profitability in a sustainability project. The starting point is the established methodology for how investments are traditionally assessed financially, but applied to the sustainability field.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
To give the participant:
- Tools for translating sustainability work into business value
- An understanding of how a company's management values sustainability work
- A model for arguing the business case for sustainability work
What you will learn
What you learn.
How different types of sustainability projects affect profitability in different industries
How to calculate the direct effects of sustainability work (for example resource savings or increased sales)
How to calculate the indirect effects of sustainability work (for example an improved brand and increased customer loyalty)
How to handle uncertainties in the calculation
How a company's management makes its decisions and what requirements that places on decision material for sustainability investments
Which factors are important to different target groups within the company when you want to get a sustainability investment approved
Basic financial concepts such as discount rate, ROI and the present value principle
Curriculum
How the course is built.
09.00 Welcome and presentation of the course and participants
09.30 When is sustainability work profitable?
Examples of companies that have been able to show a concrete link between sustainability activities and financial results.
10.00 Direct effects
We go through the first part of the method: direct effects
- Financial concepts: discount rate, the main parts of the income statement and balance sheet
- Setting up an investment calculation for the sustainability work
- How uncertainties in the calculation are handled and described
- How we link our work with other strategic values
10.30 Coffee break
10.50 Direct effects (continued)
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Indirect effects
We go through the second part of the method: indirect effects:
- We put values on things like brand, loyal customers and more
- We discuss reasonable assumptions for increased revenue and cost savings based on, for example, five % more loyal customers
- Risk models
- How we link our work with other strategic values
14.50 Coffee break
15.10 Target groups
- Who do you need to convince to get your initiative approved?
- How to set up an investment calculation so that a CFO feels confident without the marketing director falling asleep
15.40 Presentation
During the day we will work through an example case that the participants work on in groups. Now the groups present it and we discuss.
16.30 Summary and close
17.00 The course ends
Target audience
Who is this for?
This course is aimed primarily at those who work in operations that are expected to be profitable, for example:
- Environmental and sustainability managers
- Consultants
- Finance professionals
- Business developers
- Company management
- Business and product managers who want to create increased business value by integrating sustainability into their business
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