Carbon Accounting for Farming Clients

Agricultural businesses are increasingly turning to accountants for assistance with carbon accounting, which means it is important to understand the processes and available tools.

In this module, you will learn about carbon accounting for farming clients, including working with your client to identify greenhouse gas emissions and creating a carbon account using online tools.

You will learn about carbon farming activities that seek to reduce carbon emissions and costs and how these can be integrated into your farming clients operations.

You will analyse the free online tools that are available to calculate farm greenhouse gas emissions, identify ways to reduce emissions, and track and report on progress.

You will also examine the risks and opportunities of carbon accounting for farming clients, and ways you can support your clients as trusted advisers.

Key topics

• Carbon accounting and your client
• Calculating greenhouse gas emissions
• Risks and opportunities of carbon accounting for farming clients

This course has been updated to include new concepts and requirements for 2025.

This course consists of one interactive online course, one downloadable PDF learning manual and one online assessment.

This module is one of a series within the Governance component of the My Firm. My Future. Framework. It is designed to complement other learning modules in the My Firm. My Future. suite.