Many firms now report how they are doing along economic, environmental and social lines in what is called a sustainability report. But how effective are they, really?
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Risk assessments used by lenders are a boon for the oil and gas industry.
By and large, corporations who prepared themselves for new sustainability standards were more eloquent on their green plans than achievements.
We cannot leave reporting to the accounting profession and their assumptions about who and what is important. Recent proposals by the Canadian accounting profession should concern us all.
Environmental management accounting can be used to identify, analyse, manage and reduce environmental costs.
To achieve environmental sustainability, we need strong corporate standards that are quantifiably enforced, accountants trained to accurately measure sustainability — and we must all play a role.
In the face of technological threats, it may be tempting to turn finance professionals into data scientists. This isn’t the way forward. Instead, they need to find new uses for their expertise.
Some households have shared disproportionately in the growing national wealth, but GNP fails to reflect the disparity in gains across economic groups.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, Accounting, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
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DPhil Candidate, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor of accounting, Durham University
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Professor of Accounting, York University, Canada
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Professor in accounting and finance, University of Glasgow
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Associate professor in accounting, management control and economics, Audencia
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Assistant Professor in Accounting, University of Guelph
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Alberta