Accounting for sustainability : practical insights

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Title:

Author:

Hopwood, Anthony G.

ISBN:

9781849710664

9781849710671

Publication Information:

London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

1. Introduction to the accounting for sustainability case studies / Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman and Jessica Fries -- 2. The Prince's accounting for sustainability project : creating 21st century decision-making and reporting systems to respond to 21st-century challenges and opportunities / Jessica Fries, Karen McCulloch and Will Webster -- 3. Sainsbury's : embedding sustainability within the supermarket supply chain / Laura J. Spence and Leonardo Rinaldi -- 4. Using the connected reporting framework as a driver of change within EDF energy / Linda Lewis and David Ferguson -- 5. A golden thread for embedding sustainability in a local government context : the case of West Sussex county council / Suzana Grubnic and David Owen -- 6. Building from the bottom, inspired from the top : accounting for sustainability and the environment agency / Ian Thomson and Georgios Georgakopoulos -- 7. Evolution of risk, opportunity and the business case in embedding connected reporting at BT / Jeffrey Unerman and Brendan O'Dwyer -- 8. Sustainability and organizational connectivity at HSBC/ Alnoor Bhimani and Kazbi Soonawalla -- 9. "One Aviva, twice the value" : connecting sustainability at Aviva plc / Martin Brigham, Paraskevi Vicky Kiosse and David Otley -- 10. Integrated reporting at Novo Nordisk / Colin Dey and John Burns -- 11. Summary and conclusions / Anthony Hopwood ... [et al.].

Subject Term:

Sustainable development reporting.

Environmental auditing.

Social accounting.

Sustainable development reporting -- Case studies.

Environmental auditing -- Case studies.

Social accounting -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Hopwood, Anthony G.

Unerman, Jeffrey.

Fries, Jessica.

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Summary

If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account.

Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights will help organizations to address these issues. The book sets out a number of tools and approaches that have been developed and applied by leading organizations to:

Embed sustainability into decision-making, extending beyond an organization's boundaries to take into account suppliers, customers and other stakeholders Measure and link sustainability and financial performance Integrate sustainability into 'mainstream' reporting, both to management and external stakeholders

In-depth cases studies from Aviva, BT, the Environment Agency, EDF Energy, HSBC, Novo Nordisk, Sainsbury's and West Sussex County Council show in detail how accounting for sustainability works in practice in a wide range of organizational contexts. Published with The Prince's Charities: Accounting for Sustainability