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Challenges of Environmental Management Accounting – Current Accounting Practices
Challenges of Environmental Management Accounting – Current Accounting Practices

Author(s): Gheorghe Popescu, Adriana Popescu, Cristina-Raluca Popescu
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Energy and Environmental Studies, Accounting - Business Administration, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Environmental Management Accounting; information systems; management accounting activities; management accounting; financial accounting;

Summary/Abstract: The goal of our paper is to reduce some of the international confusion generated on such an important topic by providing a general framework and set of definitions for Environmental Management Accounting (EMA). Environmental Management Accounting is a relatively new tool in environmental management defined as the identification, collection, estimation, analysis, internal reporting, and use of materials and energy flow information, environmental cost information, and other cost information for both conventional and environmental decision-making within an organization. Due to their special role, accountants, since they are the ones with access to the important monetary data and information systems needed for management accounting activities, must to improve both their ability to verify the quality of such information and the skills to use that information for decision making.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 110-117
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English