Environmental accounts are tools that offers a good
cost-performance report for the following reasons:
- they enable integration and optimal use of
dispersed and incomplete primary data and also
contributes to the existing data structure,
improve coherence and serve as a basis for
evaluation;
- are integrated into the data set that correlates
environment information with economic agents;
- allow obtaining consistent sets of correlated
indicators;
represents consequently an essential basis for
analysis and modeling concerning environment
and economy;
- guarantees international comparability of results
because of the frames, concepts and common
methods;
- play a role in the Systemic informational
environment in which accounting staff can help
guide and develop environmental information to
ensure greater consistency with economic and
social information and other uses.
There are considered different types of analysis
concerning environmental accounts. A minimum of
analytical applications is useful in the process of
compiling and disseminating imputation emissions,
through some techniques that involve inputs and outputs.
Other applications are related to decomposition analyses
and estimates on goods and services.