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Briefly comment on the emergence of social environmental accounting and reporting in the last few years

      

Briefly comment on the emergence of social environmental accounting and reporting in the last few years

  

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Martin
-Social and environmental accounting has been defined as "the process of communicating the social and environmental effects of organization’s economic activities, to particular interest groups within society at large. As such, it involves extending the accountability of organizations beyond the traditional role of providing a financial account to the owners of capital, in particular, shareholders.' Such an extension is predicated upon the assumption that companies do have wider responsibilities than simply to make money for their shareholders"

Social and environmental reporting is gaining in importance politically. Most environmental reporting tends to be narrative and descriptive with entities using the document as a public relations exercise rather than as a true measure of the environmental risks and liabilities they carry. This is due to the inherent difficulties of measurement of' environmental factors and of applying accounting concepts to these factors.

Environmental information is, however, becoming essential for many businesses and. their' users. Indeed, some organizations, which see environmental issues as important, are becoming market leaders in this area. Businesses are becoming, 'greener' and we must develop accounting systems to enable environmental performance reporting to take place
marto answered the question on February 13, 2019 at 08:33


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