Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 10 Issue 4

Twenty‐five years of social and environmental accounting research: Is there a silver jubilee to celebrate?

M.R. Mathews

Reviews 25 years of social and environmental accounting literature in an attempt to evaluate the position and answer the question posed in the title, as well as to provide a…

Accountability for environmental performance of the Australian Commonwealth public sector

Roger L Burritt, Stephen Welch

Takes an exploratory approach to the development of an accountability framework for environmental performance of the Australian Commonwealth public sector. Explains that the aim…

The materiality of environmental information to users of annual reports

Craig Deegan, Michaela Rankin

Reports on the results of a survey of various groups of annual report users as to the importance, or “materiality”, of environmental information to decisions they may wish to…

NOTES Courses on environmental accounting

Kathy Gibson

Discusses the arguments for teaching environmental accounting and provides a sample of teaching programmes which have been successfully introduced in Australian and overseas…

Environmental accounting ‐ what does it mean to professional accountants?

Patrick Medley

Addresses four key areas where environmental accounting is important to accountants in the profession: the position today ‐ some of the key issues that accountants are responding…