online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/bse.395 ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING: AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF BUSINESS STRATEGY Mehenna Yakhou*1 and Vernon P. Dorweiler2 1 2 Georgia College and State University‚ USA Michigan Technological University‚ USA Environmental accounting is on an expansion path. With increasing social focus on the environment‚ accounting fills an expectation role‚ to measure environmental performance. The status of environmental awareness
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Materiality and aggregation concept Concept on Prudence Matching Principle Dual Aspect Relevance Concept Introduction Financial accounting has a number of conservative laws which have been considered over the years and all the possible identifiable rules are: Business Entity Concept‚ Money Measurement Concept‚ Going concern Concept‚ Accrual basis of accounting concept‚ Consistency Concept‚ Materiality and aggregation concept‚ Prudence‚ Matching Principle and Dual Aspect 1. The Business Entity
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Nature protection Our planet is only a tiny part of the universe‚ but nowadays is the only place where we can live. Since ancient times‚ Nature has served Man‚ being the source of his life. For thousands of years‚ people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited. But with the development of civilization‚ man’s interference in nature began to increase. Large cities with thousands of industrial enterprises appear all over the world today. The offals/rubbish
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The Purpose of war Every war brings with it disagreement. With every related event come mixed opinions and emotions. Controversy is a natural part of war. As such it shows its ugly face in the light of our country’s most recent war with Iraq. More so than some wars in that we are fighting a it preemptively in hopes to avoid one in the future. If war is eminent‚ then why not push the hands of fate and run the show our way some may say. But others feel that by assuming danger is in the
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Statement of Purpose Mayank Bhargava As a small child I remember trying to make a pyramid of cards and failing repeatedly. What I had always been missing those days was the need to focus on creating a strong base rather than abruptly rushing on to reach the top. With my undergraduate study at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)‚ the best technological institutes in India with inarguably the toughest selection ratio (~2%) in the world I am sure that the strong base required to build the pyramid
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Statement of Purpose Before graduating from SUNY Cortland‚ I knew I wanted an opportunity to study Political Science with greater depth than my undergraduate study coursework provided. I discovered the field of Political Science around the end of my sophomore year. With a dual major‚ I often had to balance one course over another in order to complete the requirements necessary for both my Communications major and my Political Science major. I was interested in Political Science over Communications
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fascinated me right from when I was in high school. My penchant for the profession then stems from the aesthetic and complexities of different structures‚ and also by the pivotal role of Civil Engineers in modernizing this world and its versatile nature since they are among the professionals that hold the aces to civilization. I took up a Bachelor’s Degree program in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Lagos‚ Nigeria in order to facilitate my dream and passion for providing efficient
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standard-setting processes. The introduction of IFRS in Australia replaced the original accounting standards and brought several brand new standards. Until now‚ Australia was the first country with a tradition of its own standard-setting to implement international accounting standards for general purposes. Therefore‚ the adoption is unexpected and controversial. This essay mainly focuses on the negative side of this accounting standard conversion‚ which points out a number of potentially serious problems
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Statement of Purpose Pranav Dinakar My mos t cheri s hed drea m i s to s ee mys el f a s a n MBA gra dua te contri buti ng i mmens el y towa rds the devel opment of Indus tri a l ventures tha t wi l l eventua l l y ca ter to the needs of the s oci ety. My undergra dua te ma jor wa s i n the fi el d of Fi na nce a nd thi s s ubs equentl y hel ped me to ga i n knowl edge rega rdi ng the va ri ous economi c a nd fi na nci a l trends of di fferent countri es a nd the regi me they fol l ow‚a s we ha
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress‚ in every society‚ in every family.” As I move towards a point where my undergraduate programme is about to end‚ and I sit down to define the course of my career‚ I felt a strong desire to pursue a career that combined IT with management skills. I believe MBA is a platform to cultivate diverse managerial skill sets‚ generate ideas with structured thoughts and capability of assuming higher
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