In recent years, Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) has been attracting increasing attention
throughout the world. There are various definitions of environmental management accounting, but essentially,
an environmental management accounting system can be thought of as a management accounting system that
has been refined so as to enable users of the system to be provided with information that reflects the
environmental performance of the organisation. The United Nations Division for Sustainable Development has
referred to environmental management accounting simply as “doing better, more comprehensive management
accounting, while wearing an environmental hat that opens the eyes for hidden costs”. The information
generated from an environmental management accounting system might be of a financial nature (for example,
the quantification of environmental costs), or it might be provided in physical terms (such as the amount of
electricity used within a particular process). Either way, the motivation for developing such a system would be
to provide a foundation for an organisation to improve both its environmental and financial performance.
Generally, companies are spending significant amount of money on pollution abatement and control. In most
cases these costs represent the most obvious and most easily measured environmentally related costs. But it is
only a top of an iceberg. Hidden environmental costs may be greater than expenditures to pollution abatement
and control and uncovering of these hidden costs can provide significant opportunities for decision making and
business planning.
In recent years, Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) has been attracting increasing attention
throughout the world. There are various definitions of environmental management accounting, but essentially,
an environmental management accounting system can be thought of as a management accounting system that
has been refined so as to enable users of the system to be provided with information that reflects the
environmental performance of the organisation. The United Nations Division for Sustainable Development has
referred to environmental management accounting simply as “doing better, more comprehensive management
accounting, while wearing an environmental hat that opens the eyes for hidden costs”. The information
generated from an environmental management accounting system might be of a financial nature (for example,
the quantification of environmental costs), or it might be provided in physical terms (such as the amount of
electricity used within a particular process). Either way, the motivation for developing such a system would be
to provide a foundation for an organisation to improve both its environmental and financial performance.
Generally, companies are spending significant amount of money on pollution abatement and control. In most
cases these costs represent the most obvious and most easily measured environmentally related costs. But it is
only a top of an iceberg. Hidden environmental costs may be greater than expenditures to pollution abatement
and control and uncovering of these hidden costs can provide significant opportunities for decision making and
business planning.
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