Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following areas:
The theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding and designing sustainability accounting;
The market mechanisms which promote and enhance sustainability accounting;
The limits of these market mechanisms and solutions to overcome respective barriers;
The influence of national regulation on sustainability accounting;
The measures and organisational instruments/tools which enable organisations to improve their accounting for sustainability;
The experiences with new sustainability management control and reporting forms (such as integrated reporting);
The relationships and interactions between strategic decision-making, sustainability accounting, management control and/or external reporting;
The organisational structures and competencies needed to enable people to overcome department boundaries and advance sustainability accounting in their organisation;
The consequences for professional training and education;
The favourable conditions and difficulties encountered during the diffusion of sustainability into the accounting and control systems;
The role of sustainability performance measurement for management control;
The organizational levels involved in sustainability performance measurement;
The voluntary audit and assurance as a mean to improve the credibility of the disclosed sustainability information