Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments

by M.D. Bennett (Editor), J.J. Bouma (Editor), T.J. Wolters (Editor)

Overview

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive.

This book gives a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for implementing their own specific EMA structures. Besides discussing environmental accounting issues within conventional management accounting, it gives a detailed picture of materials flow (cost) accounting as an alternative way of looking at the ecology-economy relationships at the corporate level. A fascinating case study shows how a large company (Siemens) applies materials flow accounting and what benefits it entails.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402005534
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/2002
Series:	Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science , #9
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

The Development of Environmental Management Accounting: General Introduction and Critical Review.- Overviews.- An Integrative Framework of Environmental Management Accounting — Consolidating the Different Approaches of EMA into a Common Framework and Terminology.- Environmental Management Accounting Metrics: Procedures and Principles.- A Guideline for the Measurement and Reporting of Environmental Costs.- Flow Cost Accounting, an Accounting Approach Based on the Actual Flows of Materials.- Resource-Efficiency Accounting.- Information Systems.- Efficient Eco-Management Using ECO-Integral — How to Save Costs and Natural Resources at the Same Time.- Materials Flow Management Based on Production Data from ERP Systems.- ‘Counting what Counts’ — Raising Transparency through Environmental Management Accounting at Siemens.- The Danish Environmental Management Accounting Project: An Environmental Management Accounting Framework and Possible Integration into Corporate Information Systems.- Life Cycle Engineering.- Ema Policies.- Corporate Environmental Accounting: A Japanese Perspective.- Environmental Accounting in Korea: Cases and Policy Recommendations.- Government Strategies to Promote Corporate Environmental Management Accounting.- Looking for Knowledge Management in Environmental Accounting.- The Greening of Accounting: Putting the Environment onto the Agenda of the Accountancy Profession in the Philippines.- Different Ema Perspectives.- Environmental Performance Measurement.- Towards Sustainability Indicators for Product Chains.- Towards Transparent Information on the Environmental Quality of Products — LCA-based Data Production for the Finnish Foodstuff Industry.- Prospective Analysis for Implementing an Environmental Management System in Pig Farms: LikelyRole of an Environmental Management Accounting System.- Environmental Management Accounting and the Opportunity Cost of Neglecting Environmental Protection.- Wanted: A Theory for Environmental Management Accounting.

Editorial Reviews

"As contributions in this volume come not only from researchers but also from the industry and governmental organizations, the text is very rich in terms of references to real cases and authenticity, but occasionally at the cost of congruence and harmony. Having said that, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in environmental accounting. I would also suggest to read this book keeping a critical eye on EMA, as some of the authors do."
(European Accounting Review, 13:1 (2004)

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