scholarly journals NEW METHODOLOGY INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (EMA) AND CLEANER PRODUCTION ASSESSMENT (CPA) TO EFFECTIVELY CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Huyen Thi Thu Do ◽  
Hai Thanh Le
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Cleaner Production ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting

Environmental management accounting (EMA) and cleaner production assessment (CPA) both are considered effective tools to assist industries improve their production performance, minimize pollution and progress toward sustainable development. The paper presents the development of a suitable methodology integrating these two tools in order to facilitate approach of EMA to industries, to reflect environmental costs in the company’s financial statements for more sustainable business plans and accurate evaluation of the effectiveness of applied CP measures. This method is expected to be a new solution for the difficulties of EMA in approaching industries and for the limitations of existing accounting system in quantifying efficiencies of CP measures.

scholarly journals The Perceptions of Management on the Benefits of Adopting an Environmental Management Accounting System as a Waste Management Tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Mishelle Doorasamy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Paper And Pulp

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the perception of management on the benefits of adopting an environmental management accounting (EMA) system as a waste management tool in a paper and pulp manufacturing company. This paper highlights the benefits of an EMA system and the role and importance of EMA as a decision-making tool in encouraging the adoption of cleaner production (CP) techniques and technologies. This research was based on a case study of a paper and pulp manufacturing company in KwaZulu-Natal. This research was both quantitative and qualitative in nature. Data collection instruments for the study included a Likert-type questionnaire and interviews with the environmental manager and cost accountant but the findings reported in this paper are based on the empirical evidence gathered from the questionnaire which identified that there was positive correlation between environmental performance and CP techniques and technologies. Environmental costs were hidden under general overheads and understated because the company was using a conventional costing system and not an EMA system; hence, environmental costs were not traced back to the products or processes responsible for those costs. It was evident from the qualitative data analysis that management regarded their environmental costs as too insignificant to justify implementation of an EMA system. The consequent reluctance of the company to adopt CP resulted in poor waste management and lower-quality environmental performance.

Aspetti evolutivi dell'Environmental Management Accounting: l'Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Michele A. Rea ◽  
Lucia Stella
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
New Research ◽  
Traditional Activity

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is a new research field on accounting born to overcome conventional management accounting's limits about environmental costs. This work offers a literary review on EMA. In particular, the Authors in the first part describe a series of LCC-oriented tools which characterise Environmental Management Accounting. The second section, passing through the "traditional" Activity-Based Costing, presents the Activity-Based LCC methodology, which combines the activity-based approach with the life-cycle perspective for environmental costs. In conclusion, the Authors propose new research lines on EMA.

scholarly journals Determinant Factors of Sustainable Management Accounting System in Increasing Company Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ria . ◽  
Yvonne Augustine
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting

The aim of writing this paper is to identify determinant factors of Sustainable Management Accounting System (SMCA) in increasing company performance. This paper uses a quantitative research approach while analyzing using Multiple Regression techniques with the help of the SPSS program. A questionnaire was distributed to the employees with simple random sampling. The results have represented that significant influences are Accounting in the scope of Environmental Management, Accounting within the scope of Social Management and Workplace Spirituality moderated by Corporate Governance on Corporate Performance simultaneously. Workplace Spirituality significant positive influence on Corporate Performance moderated by Corporate Governance partially, but there is a significant negative influence of Environmental Management Accounting moderated by Corporate Governance partially on Corporate Performance. This study builds a conceptual model of SMAS that is expected to contribute theoretically and can be used as a support for literature. By implementing the SMAS model, companies can encourage better performance when using Corporate Governance to improve management decisions about the determining factors for implementing SMAS.

scholarly journals Barriers of implementation of environmental management accounting in business practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Petra Mísařová
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Information System ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting

Environmental management accounting is a very important source of information for decision-making management of the company. In many companies there were created a detailed and dynamic system of recording and processing of data on environmental costs that companies mistakenly issued for environmental management accounting. And also today for environmental accounting in the CR it is characteristic that in organizations is not normal monitoring of the environmental costs con­si­de­red as part of an integrated system for monitoring and evaluation of material, energy and financial flows. Companies do not use a wide range of options that the environmental management accounting provides. Why do not companies introduce environmental management accounting into its information system and do not use all the opportunities that EMA provides? In practice there are many barriers that prevent full-fledged process of implementation of environmental management accounting in the information system of companies. Many barriers were identified and were therefore subjected to cluster analysis. Clusters filled by identified barriers under the rules of cluster analysis are the result of cluster analysis.

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