Competencies for Sustainable Development Goals Accounting: Educating public management for disclosure and reporting

Mio Chiara, Oranges Cezarino Luciana

Identifying competencies to report SDGs in accountants can enhance corporate disclosure effectiveness and provide more robust information to society. Public managers are called to control through the lens of collective objectives and multiple stakeholders’ interests. Based on the knowledge-attitude-skills triad and the political Delphi method, we could identify the antecedent factors to disclose SDGs successfully. The purpose was critical to developing competencies, aligning leaders’ mindsets, and suppressing public management barriers to reporting corporate SDGs. By identifying specific competencies, we bring the individual perspectives of accounting sustainability education.

Keywords: Competencies, Sustainable development goals, Sustainable accounting, Sustainability education, Sustainable Reporting, Sustainable accounting compliance,