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Sustainable Development
This is why South African companies need to improve their sustainability reporting
Researchers have introduced a new framework to encourage companies to take on the more challenging aspects of sustainability.
Heidi Janse van Rensburg is a senior lecturer to PDBA and MBA students at NMMU Business School. She has lectured financial management, cost and management accounting and auditing at undergraduate level; managerial accounting and finance on a postgraduate Internal auditing programme; Strategic management accounting and finance on a postgraduate accountancy module, as well as financial management to masters students in the Health and Welfare Science Department and the Built Environment Department.