Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

Descriere

This is the fourth in a series of books publishing the best contributions on environmental management accounting (EMA) from around the world. It has been developed by the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN). Contributions are drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-EU and EMAN-Asia Pacific conferences in the last two years. Brought together in this volume are international examples of leading thinking and practice in this rapidly developing area.

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting provides an up-to-date overview of the most current views, developments, costs and benefits in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. The book discusses new developments in environmental accounting and investigates topics in and links between corporate environmental and sustainability issues as well as between strategy, measurement and information management, and between accounting and reporting.

Papers presented in this research based publication have been through an independent peer review and thorough editing process to ensure the highest possible research quality for theory based submissions and, for the more applied contributions, the greatest potential usefulness and impact for corporate and public-policy practitioners.

Academic and professional accountants, academics in the area of environmental and sustainability management, managers responsible for sustainability reporting and reports in companies, the business community-- especially environmental and sustainability managers in companies and middle-level management who need to be aware of major trends, academics who wish to have a broad and complete overview on new accounting and reporting trends, Consultants-- especially in the field of environmental and sustainability accounting, and managers who look for practical and proven concepts and tools for managing corporate sustainability, also governments and government agencies, NGOs and international bodies who need better information about corporate sustainability

• accounting
• empirical research
• environmental management
• information management
• reporting
• sustainability management
• theoretical models