Sustainability and the Balanced Scorecard: Integrating Green Measures into Business Reporting By: Chris Apel Managerial Accounting 12-2-12 Practices that are good for the environment and society may appear to have a negative impact on corporate profitability‚ but use of the balance scorecard can result in a clearer picture of the relationship among sustainable practices‚ corporate strategies‚ and profitability. This article explores three ways that sustainable practices can be incorporated
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Never before has sustainability been more important on the corporate agenda. According to Brundtland Commission of the United Nations (1987) sustainability is defined as operating in a way that preserves the long-term quality and productive capacity of both the natural and social environments in which a company operates. For humans‚ sustainability is defined as the potential for long-term maintenance of well being‚ which has environmental‚ economic‚ and social dimensions. Sustainability therefore involves:
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process of reflection and reflective writing Assignment 3 in IPLU1 week B requires you to be both analytical and reflective. The Oxford Dictionary says that reflection refers to calm‚ lengthy and intent consideration‚ contemplation or musing. Essentially reflection is focused thinking of an evaluative type. Reflection involves being honest with yourself about your previous ignorance and your new learning‚ however enlightening or hard it was to face. Much reflective thinking takes place in your
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 17; September 2012 Agenda setting and Framing of Elections during Musharraf Period in Pakistani Print Media (1999-2008) Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry Lecturer Institute of Communication Studies University of the Punjab Lahore-Pakistan Amna Ashraf Lecturer Media studies Dept 93-Kinnaird College Lahore-Pakistan Abstract This paper presents a content analysis of editorials published by the elite English press of Pakistan during Pervaiz
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PETRONAS is a fully-integrated oil and gas multinational corporation fully owned by the Malaysian Government. The nature of its business itself is causing sustainability issues because while oil is a key resource to generate power‚ it is also a great environment polluter and is not renewable natural resource. Although there are various stakeholders for PETRONAS‚ the Malaysian government and local governments where PETRONAS operates have the greatest impact on its strategies and actions. Whenever
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Business Ethics & Social Responsibility: PriceWaterHouseCoopers PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is considered to be one of the most renowned global professional services firm in the world. With 161‚000 employees located in 154 countries‚ the company’s “core values of excellence‚ teamwork and leadership (have) help us to achieve this growth.” (PricewaterhouseCoopers) They not only focus on meeting their clients’ needs but they apply on their employees’ careers with the same intensity. The company
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its journey through time. The side effects of the development process have however also been equally enormous – loss of bio-diversity‚ environmental damage etc. The warming effect of certain man made gas emissions such as carbon-di-oxide‚ methane‚ nitrous oxide and hydro fluoro carbons are found responsible for distortion in climate change. As environmental issues gain greater attention‚ pressure is placed on all industries including financial services to implement green initiatives. There is
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Environmental performance‚ as defined by the impending ISO 14031‚ is the company’s achievement in managing any interaction between the company’s activities‚ products or services and the environment (ISO 1997). Improvement of environmental performance thus implies that the company has minimised the relative environmental impact of its activities‚ products or services. Based on the use of performance measurement in traditional management accounting‚ environmental performance measures are (Horngren
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 3; February 2012 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY USAGE FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN‚ AND THE CONCEQUENCES OF ITS USAGE FOR THE CHILDRENS’ DEVELOPMENT Jurka Lepičnik-Vodopivec‚ Ph.D. Associate professor University of Maribor Faculty of Arts Koroška cesta 160‚ 2000 Maribor Slovenia Pija Samec University of Maribor Faculty of Arts Koroška cesta 160‚ 2000 Maribor Slovenia Abstract Information-communication
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