Free enterprise system, financial markets and corporate culture
The role and responsibility of business in society
Introduction to business sustainability, corporate governance and organizational ethics
Business sustainability
Sustainability principles, theories, research and education
Drivers and sources of business sustainability initiatives
Financial economic dimension of sustainability
Non-financial dimensions of sustainability
Business sustainability performance reporting, assurance
Emerging issues in sustainability performance, reporting and assurance
An introduction to corporate governance
Fundamentals of corporate governance
Oversight function
Board committees
Managerial function
Compliance function
External auditing function
Internal auditing function
Legal and advisory function
Monitory function
Corporate governance of private and not-for-profit organizations
Corporate governance, performance, information technology, research, education and reporting
Transformation of corporate governance, contemporary issues and global perspectives
Overview of business ethics
Where ethics comes from : gazing at the human conditions
How people make ethical decisions
Ethics as corporate culture
The institutionalization of the ethical corporation
Emerging business ethics issues
Ethical leadership

Improving corporate governance, business sustainability, and accountability for business organizations appears to be a global trend. Society is holding public companies responsible and accountable for their business activities and their financial reporting process. The public, regulators, accounting profession, and academic community are also taking a closer look at colleges and universities to find ways to hold these institutions more accountable for achieving their mission of providing higher education with relevant curriculum. Three areas that have recently received long-awaited attention are business sustainability, professional ethics, and corporate governance. Business schools play an important and everlasting role in preparing the next generation of business leaders who possess life-long education and training of acting with integrity and upholding the highest level of ethical conduct and the heavy burden of public trust. These next generations of business leaders must understand the importance of ethical conduct, business sustainability and corporate governance corporations to our society and the complexity of financial reporting. Thus, business curriculum must reflect promotion of ethical behavior, professional accountability, and personal integrity taught to business students. Corporate governance, business sustainability, ethics including accountability, integrity, and transparency must be integrated throughout the business curriculum. The book is organized into three modules. Module I presents business sustainability, its importance, five dimensions of business sustainability performance including economic, governance, social, ethics and environmental (EGSEE), sustainability reporting and assurance and sustainability research and education. Module II provides the emergence of corporate governance, a framework for discussion of important functions of corporate governance including oversight, managerial, compliance, advisory, auditing, and monitoring as well as and integrating corporate governance into accounting research and business curricula. Module III discusses the importance of business and professional ethics, workplace ethics and trends in ethics research and education"