ACCT 3330
Sustainability Reporting and Analysis: Accounting for a Changing World · 1 instructor on record · 6 sections
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As concerns around sustainability grow, firms' reporting on this information is increasingly prevalent and demanded by shareholders and other stakeholders. This course will introduce students to the current reporting landscape and the various sustainability reporting frameworks used by firms, exploring these frameworks by comparing and contrasting companies' sustainability reports. We will study global regulations to standardize reporting and consider how these disclosures complement what firms already report in their financial statements (e.g. 10-Ks). After understanding how firms report on sustainability issues (e.g. climate risk, GHG emissions, human capital, etc.), we will examine how stakeholders use this information, considering questions such as how to assess the reliability of these disclosures (e.g. is this just "greenwashing"), how these disclosures relate to commercial sustainability (also called ESG) ratings, and how these disclosures tie to the firms' strategies (e.g. tying executive compensation to sustainability metrics). Since the regulatory environment is evolving, this course will be fluid; topics we cover may change during the semester as current events dictate.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ellen CarterProfessor and Joseph L. Sweeney, Esquire '23, LL.D. '63 (hon.) Chair in Accounting · Accounting | 916 records | 39th | 44th | 801 rating · all classes |
There is no ranking to read here: Mary Ellen Carter is the only instructor with evaluation records for ACCT 3330, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.
Also taught by Mary Ellen Carter
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|---|---|---|
| ACCT 1021Financial Accounting | 25157 records | 83 |
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| ACCT 3321Intermediate Accounting for Finance and Consulting | 518 records | 70 |
| ACCT 1022Managerial Accounting | 717 records | 74 |
| ACCT 4405Federal Taxation | 217 records | 87 |
| ACCT 3302Financial Accounting Standards and Theory II | 216 records | 88 |
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All 13 items · means across 6 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
6 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2025 | 01 | 90 | 86 | 60 |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2025 | 02 | 94 | 86 | 40 |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2024 | 01 | 89 | 82 | 60 |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2024 | 02 | 92 | 86 | 40 |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2023 | 01 | 96 | 97 | — |
| Mary Ellen Carter | Fall 2023 | 02 | 84 | 79 | — |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.