Accounting for Sustainability provides a technical framework for integrating environmental and social impacts into corporate financial systems. Hopwood and Unerman present specific tools for measuring how ecological factors and supply chain ethics influence a firm’s long-term profitability. The text uses detailed case studies from organizations like BT, HSBC, and the Environment Agency to demonstrate how management can move beyond superficial reporting. It explains exactly how to track carbon emissions, water usage, and labor standards through standardized accounting procedures that align with traditional profit and loss statements.
Financial controllers, sustainability officers, and corporate strategists read this book to bridge the gap between abstract policy and concrete reporting. It provides the mechanical steps required to incorporate non-financial data into board-level decision-making. Readers walk away with practical methods for linking resource efficiency to financial performance and a blueprint for restructuring internal audits to satisfy external stakeholder demands for transparency. The book functions as a manual for quantifying risk and value in an era of increasing regulatory pressure and environmental scarcity.
Outward-looking and growth-minded; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Systems Thinker. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Earthscan
- ISBN
- 9781849776332
- Language
- EN
