Research Catalog

Title

The green bottom line : environmental accounting for management, current practice and future trends / Martin Bennett and Peter James, contributing editors.

Publication

Sheffield, England : Greenleaf Publishing, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Bennett, Martin.
• James, Peter.

Description

424 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Environmental impact analysis
• Environmental auditing
• Industrial management > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. General concepts. The green bottom line / Martin Bennett, Peter James -- An introduction to environmental accounting as a business management tool : key concepts and terms / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Calculating the true profitability of pollution prevention / Stefan Schalteger, Kaspar Müller -- Integrating environmental impacts into capital investment decisions / Marc J. Epstein, Marie-Josée Roy -- Valuing potential environmental liabilities for managerial decision-making : a review of available techniques / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- The Italian method of environmental accounting / Matteo Bartolomeo -- Environmental management accounting in the Netherlands / Jan Jaap Bouma -- Cost allocation : an active tool for environmental management accounting / Roger L. Burritt. Pt. 2. Empirical studies. Green ledgers : an overview / Daryl Ditz, Janet Ranganathan, R. Darryl Banks -- Environmental cost accounting for chemical and oil companies : a benchmarking study / David Shields, Miriam Heller -- Applying environmental accounting to electroplating operations : an in-depth analysis / Mark Haveman, Terry Foecke -- Reducing the uncertainty in environmental investments : integrating stakeholder values into corporate decisions / Graham Earl -- Shared savings and environmental management accounting : innovative chemical supply strategies / Thomas J. Bierma -- Environmental accounting in an investment analysis context : total cost assessment at a small lithographic printer / Edward D. Reiskin, Deborah E. Savage, David A. Miller. Pt. 3. Case studies. Making environmental management count : Baxter International's environmental financial statement / Martin Bennett, Peter James -- Full-cost accounting for decision-making at Ontario Hydro / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Environmental accounting at Sulzer Technology Corporation / Georg Schroeder, Matthias Winter -- Life-cycle costing and packaging at Xerox, Ltd. / Martin Bennet, Peter James -- The cost of waste at Zeneca / Martin Bennett, Peter James -- The road not taken : acting on "Beyond environmental compliance" in managerial decision-making / Timothy T. Greene. Pt. 4. Implementation. How to implement environment-related management accounting / Martin Bennet, Peter James.

ISBN

• 1874719071
• 1874719241 (pbk.)
• 9781874719243 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm40233947

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries