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Table of Contents of Accounting for the Environment

Preface and Personal Acknowledgements
How to Use this Book
About CSEAR, the ACCA, and KPMG
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in the Text

PART A: INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES
1. Business and the Environment: The Challenge for Accounting and Finance
2. Business and the Environment: Agenda, Attitudes, and Actions

PART B: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND ACCOUNTING
3. Greening the Organization: Getting Started
4. Environmental Policy: Adoption, Establishment, and Implementation
5. Environmental Audit: Assessment, Review, Management, and Attestation
6. Accounting and the Control of Energy Costs
7. Accounting and Controlling for the Costs of Waste, Packaging, and Recycling
8. Investment, Budgeting, and Appraisal: Environment at the Heart of the Accounting and Financial Systems
9. Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment

PART C: EXTERNAL RELATIONS
10. The Greening of Finance: Bank Lending, Insurance, and Ethical/Environmental Investment
11. External Reporting and Auditing I: Reporting Within a Financial Framework
12. External Reporting and Auditing II: Non-Financial Reporting
13. The External “Social Audits”

PART D: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
14. Accounting and Reporting for a Future: Sustainability, Accountability, and Transparency
15. A Change of Paradigm?

Appendices
Index