The Green Bottom Line -

The Green Bottom Line

Environmental Accounting for Management: Current Practice and Future Trends

Martin Bennett, Peter James (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
1998
Greenleaf Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-874719-24-3 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
This volume brings together research and best practice case studies on the topic of environmental accounting for management. It is divided into four sections, covering "General Concepts", "Empirical Studies", "Case Studies" and "Implementation".
To date, both internal and external corporate environmental reporting and management systems have focused on physical input–output measures. However, external stakeholders are increasingly demanding that organisations provide more financial information about the costs and benefits of their environmental actions. As environmental costs rise, internal decision-makers are also seeking such information to ensure that money is well spent. Beyond basic compliance, many companies will not countenance environmental actions for which a "business case" cannot be made.



A number of companies – such as Baxter, BT, Xerox, Zeneca and others – are now beginning to develop a better understanding of the costs and benefits of environmental action. The US Environmental Protection Agency has also done considerable work on models designed to understand the "full costs" of pollution control investments, with the aim of demonstrating that – when these are properly considered – pollution prevention can be a more cost-effective alternative.



The Green Bottom Line brings together much of the world's leading research and best-practice case studies on the topic. Divided into four sections, covering "General Concepts", "Empirical Studies", "Case Studies" and "Implementation", the book includes case studies from the US EPA's Environment Accounting Programme and contributions from authors at institutions including the IMD, INSEAD, Tellus Institute and the World Resources Institute. It constitutes a state-of-the-art collection.

Martin Bennett, Peter James

Foreword

Susan McLaughlin, US EPA



Foreword

William Blackburn, Baxter International



Foreword

Ian Ash, BT Corporate Communications



Foreword

Jan-Olaf Willums, Storebrand, Norway



Foreword

Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, UNEP IE



Introduction

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK



Part I: General concepts



1. The Green Bottom Line

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK



2. An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as a Business Management Tool: Key Concepts and Terms

US Environmental Protection Agency



3. Calculating the True Profitability of Pollution Prevention

Stefan Schaltegger, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Kaspar Mueller, Ellipson Ltd, Basel, Switzerland



4. Integrating Environmental Impacts into Capital Investment Decisions

Marc J. Epstein, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, and Marie-Josee Roy, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and CIRANO, Canada



5. Valuing Potential Environmental Liabilities for Managerial Decision-Making: A Review of Available Techniques

US Environmental Protection Agency



6. The Italian Method of Environmental Accounting

Matteo Bartolomeo, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy



7. Environmental Management Accounting in the Netherlands

Jan Jaap Bouma, Erasmus Centre for Environmental Studies, Rotterdam, Netherlands



8. Cost Allocation: An Active Tool for Environmental Management Accounting?

Roger L. Burritt, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia



Part II: Empirical studies



9. Green Ledgers: An Overview

Daryl Ditz, Janet Ranganathan and R. Darryl Banks, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA



10. Environmental Cost Accounting for Chemical and Oil Companies: A Benchmarking Study

David Shields, Beth Beloff and Miriam Heller, University of Houston, USA



11. Applying Environmental Accounting to Electroplating Operations: An In-Depth Analysis

Mark Haveman and Terry Foecke, Waste Reduction Institute for Training and Applications Research, St Paul, MN, USA



12. Reducing the Uncertainty in Environmental Investments: Integrating Stakeholder Values into Corporate Decisions

Graham Earl, Tuula Moilanen and Roland Clift, University of Surrey, UK



13. Shared Savings and Environmental Management Accounting: Innovative Chemical Supply Strategies

Thomas J. Bierma, Frank L. Waterstraat and Joyce Ostrosky, Illinois State University, USA



14. Environmental Accounting in an Investment Analysis Context: Total Cost Assessment at a Small Lithographic Printer

Edward D. Reiskin, Deborah E. Savage and David A. Miller, The Tellus Institute, Boston, MA, USA



Part III: Case studies



15. Making Environmental Management Count: Baxter International's Environmental Financial Statement

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK



16. Full-Cost Accounting for Decision-Making at Ontario Hydro

US Environmental Protection Agency



17. Environmental Accounting at Sulzer Technology Corporation

Georg Schroeder, Sulzer Hydro, Zuerich, Switzerland, and Matthias Winter, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland



18. Life-Cycle Costing and Packaging at Xerox Ltd

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK



19. The Cost of Waste at Zeneca

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK



20. The Road Not Taken: Acting on 'Beyond Environmental Compliance' in Managerial Decision-Making

Timothy T. Greene, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA



Part IV: Implementation



21. Implementing Environment-Related Management Accounting

Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK

Verlagsort Saltaire
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 660 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10 1-874719-24-1 / 1874719241
ISBN-13 978-1-874719-24-3 / 9781874719243
Zustand Neuware
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