The Accounting Paradox - Jeremy Nicholls

The Accounting Paradox

Why financial accounting is destroying the world (and how to stop it)

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Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2025
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-713-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Think accounting is dull? Think again. What we accept as ‘true and fair’ in businesses’ accounts is the key to a more just, sustainable future for all of us. Here’s how we make the change.
When you think about the tools at our disposal to address the ecological, social and biodiversity challenges we face today, accounting might not immediately come to mind. And yet it is accounting standards, not science and not public policy, that set out how profit is calculated, which in turn drives investment decisions. What if we demanded that those standards reflect the true cost of business and its consequences?

Unless we look again at these fundamental principles, which have gone under the radar for so long, capital markets will continue to contribute to inequality, nature loss and climate change. What’s remarkable is that we already have in place everything we need for a more just and complete approach to accounting, and forward-thinking businesses are beginning to recognize that.

Jeremy Nicholls – accountant, sustainability professional, historian and activist – sets out a vision for new way of accounting, and it’s one that we can adopt immediately.

Jeremy Nicholls has spent his career addressing inequality. He became an accountant to support the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, then spent some years with PWC working with Tanzania Railways. A co-founder and then CEO of Social Value International (SVI), a global community of social accountants with a mission to change the way the world accounts for value, he is now the assurance framework lead for the UNDP’s SDG Impact Standards, designed to support organizations seeking to make a positive contribution to sustainability, and is an ambassador for the Capitals Coalition. He has researched and written widely in the field of impact accounting, including regular contributions to Pioneers Post and several books.

Introduction

Part 1: The problem: Why accounting is destroying us



Chapter 1: Accounting – the blind spot of economics
Chapter 2: The mess we’re in
Chapter 3: Two futures

Part 2: The background: How we got where we are today



Chapter 4: The foundations of accountancy – up to 17th century
Chapter 5: Imperialism and industry – 18th and 19th centuries
Chapter 6: Capitalism and internationalization – 20th century onwards

Part 3: The solution: A manifesto for tomorrow



Chapter 7: True and Fair
Chapter 8: Make the change – essential short-term and medium-term actions

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.9.2025
Zusatzinfo Tables, black and white; Halftones, black and white; Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Tadley
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-78860-713-9 / 1788607139
ISBN-13 978-1-78860-713-1 / 9781788607131
Zustand Neuware
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