Sustainability Accounting Impact

Impact of Sustainability accounting on Organization: Sustainability accounting is used to describe additional information management and accounting methods that aim to create and provide high quality information to support a corporation in its movement towards sustainability. Its reporting by contrast describe new formalized means of communication which provide information about organizational sustainability. Sustainability accounting and reporting is crucial for two reasons firstly, accounting information which is not communicate cannot exert any influence and is thus unable to contribute towards the sustainable development. secondly reporting is needed in order to substantiate information about the actual status and progress

The statement aims to capture all relevant items of environmentally related expenditure, irrespective of which department or cost center incurred them, and to match the expenditure with associated financial benefits or savings. Environmental costs may be investments in fixed assets (manufactured capital) or operational expenses. Environmental benefits may arise from cost savings; environmental grants; taxes avoided or revenues generated. Environmental taxes environmental performance and tax breaks (e.g. enhanced capital allowance for energy efficiency investments) to reward good environmental practices are likely to become more common. In other cases, some materials will become more costly or even banned for environmental reason. An example of an EFS in practice is provided by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. They have produced and reported a companywide statement of environmental costs and benefits since 1995. The Company reports that their experience makes a powerful bottom line argument for environmentally responsible corporate behavior that should appeal to companies that have yet to make environmental issues a priority. management accounting system which can identify not just environment related costs but

A distinction is therefore made between private costs and benefits which accrue directly to the organization and societal or external costs and benefits that accrue to other stakeholders. Stress has impacts both inside an company e.g. through lost productivity, outside an organization e.g. the quality of life of the employee and family. The impact to the organization is internalized as lost productivity and could be drawn out in a Social Financial Statement. The wider impacts on the individual and society are not internalized and so would appear in an account of external social costs. To prepare external accounts an organization must collect new information on the external environmental, social and economic impacts relating to the organizations' activities. These impacts are evaluated in accounting terms where possible. There are essentially 4 impact of external cost