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Accounting for the environment / Rob Gray and Jan Bebbington ; editorial adviser, Martin Houldin.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 076197136X
  • 9780761971375
  • 0761971378 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 657
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Table of contents
Preface xi- xvi

Part A: Introduction to the Issues 1
1. Business and the Environment: the challenge for Accounting and finance 11-27
2. Business and the Environment: Agenda, Attitudes and Actions 28-42

Part B: management Information and Accounting 43
3. Greening the Organization: Getting Started 48-64
4. Environmental Policy: Adoption, Establishment and Implementation 66-84
5. Environmental Audit and management systems: Assessment, Review and Attestation 87-121
6. Accounting and the control of Energy costs 122- 138
7. Accounting and controlling for the costs of waste, packing and Recycling 139-159
8. Investment, Budgeting and Appraisal: Environment at the Heart of the Accounting and financial systems 160- 179
9. Life Cycle assessment and the Mass Balance 180-194

Part C: External Relations 197
10. The Greening of finance: Bank Lending, Insurance and Ethical/Environmental Investment 201-218
11. External Exporting and Auditing I: Reporting within the finance statements 220-238
12. External Reporting and Auditing II: Environmental Reporting Outside the financial statements 240-270
13. Social Accounting and Reporting and the External ‘Social Audits’ 273-291

Part D: Future directions 293
14. Accounting and Reporting for future: Sustainability, Accountability and Transparency 294-318
15. A Change of Paradigm? 319 -324
Appendix 326
Bibliography 332
Index 353
Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-352) and index.

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