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Contemporary Issues in Sustainability Accounting, Assurance and Reporting
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Contemporary Issues in Sustainability Accounting, Assurance and Reporting
About this book
This volume draws together contemporary topics, themes and methodologies in the field of sustainability reporting and assurance to reveal how sustainability information is actually used, interpreted and processed by internal and external users. The volume covers the following topics: 1 value relevance of sustainability information; 2 methodology and performance of Socially Responsible Investment funds; 3 the current regulatory environment for both professional and legislative corporate sustainability reporting, and the case for more comprehensive systematic regulation 4 the role and effectiveness of shareholder activism in promoting improved sustainability practices among corporations; 5 accounting challenges of the carbon economy in developed and developing nations; 6 developing a theoretical framework for understanding the links between sustainability strategy, accounting and communication; 7 recent empirical evidence on how organisations collect, measure and integrate sustainability information for internal decision-making tasks; 8 understanding how to rank and rate the quality of corporate reporting from a sustainability perspective; 9 audit and assurance of sustainability information.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contemporary Issues in Sustainability Accounting, Assurance and Reporting
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1. Sustainability Reporting and Assurance: State of Practice
- 2. The Valuation Relevance of Environmental Performance: Evidence from the Academic Literature
- 3. Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds
- 4. An Inconvenient Truth about Accounting: The Paradigm Shift Required in Carbon Emissions Reporting and Assurance
- 5. Active Ownership and ESG Performance
- 6. The Need for Effective Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability Regulation
- 7. The Carbon Economy and Emissions Reporting
- 8. Sustainability Reporting Beyond Rhetoric: Linking Strategy, Accounting and Communication
- 9. The Measurement and Reporting of Sustainability Information within the Organization: A Case Analysis
- 10. A Methodology to Rank the Quality and Comprehensiveness of Sustainability Information Provided in Publicly Listed Company Reports
- 11. Assurance on Sustainability Reporting: State of Play and Future Directions
- Index