Financial Management and Reporting

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Critiquing modern performance management systems in organisations Consider the BHP Billiton 2014 Sustainability Report, which can be accessed via the following link: http://www.bhpbilliton.com/home/society/reports/Pages/Roll%20up%20Pages/2014-BHPBilliton-Sustainability-Report.aspx Module 6 & Module 7: Your group is comprised of high achieving financial managers, brought together by the BHP Billiton CEO to critique the sustainability performance indicators currently used in BHP Billiton’s sustainability report. Key external stakeholders are demanding more information, and the Board is broadly concerned that the efforts implemented by BHP Billiton to initiate a sustainability reporting system might actually be reducing the reputational brand of the firm. Your task is to critically analyse BHP Billiton’s sustainability reporting system as well as its indicators, with explanations for your support, concerns or suggestions for modifications. Your report should include a critique of the existing system, propose a framework for the financial management and operational viability of sustainability reporting that incorporates the concepts we’ve discussed in class, and critique the risks inherent in introducing the sustainability framework(s) you’re proposing, where relevant. Please write no more than 3,000 words (excluding diagrams, appendices, tables and references). Please note that appendices are only to be used as sources of evidence for existing arguments in the main body of your answers. New arguments/explanations cannot be introduced in your appendices. writer – must expert in sustainability reporting system to stakeholders knowledge in accounting and financial accounts

Consider the BHP Billiton 2014 Sustainability Report, which can be accessed via the following link:
http://www.bhpbilliton.com/home/society/reports/Pages/Roll%20up%20Pages/2014-BHPBilliton-Sustainability-Report.aspx
Module 6 & Module 7: Your group is comprised of high achieving financial managers, brought together by the BHP Billiton CEO to critique the sustainability performance indicators currently used in BHP Billiton’s sustainability report. Key external stakeholders are demanding more information, and the Board is broadly concerned that the efforts implemented by BHP Billiton to initiate a sustainability reporting system might actually be reducing the reputational brand of the firm.
Your task is to critically analyse BHP Billiton’s sustainability reporting system as well as its indicators, with explanations for your support, concerns or suggestions for modifications. Your report should include a critique of the existing system, propose a framework for the financial management and operational viability of sustainability reporting that incorporates the concepts we’ve discussed in class, and critique the risks inherent in introducing the sustainability framework(s) you’re proposing, where relevant.
Please write no more than 3,000 words (excluding diagrams, appendices, tables and references). Please note that appendices are only to be used as sources of evidence for existing arguments in the main body of your answers. New arguments/explanations cannot be introduced in your appendices.