Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Performance and Reporting
- 4h 46m
- Ann M. Brockett, Zabihollah Rezaee
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2012
Invaluable guidance for complete integration of sustainability into reporting and performance management systems
Global businesses are under close scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators, and their diverse stakeholders to focus on sustainability and accept responsibility for their multiple bottom line performance. Business Sustainability and Accountability examines business sustainability and accountability reporting and their integration into strategy, governance, risk assessment, performance management and the reporting process. This book also highlights how people, business and resources collaborate in a business sustainability and accountability model.
- Looks at business sustainability and accountability reporting and assurance and their incorporation into the reporting process
- Focuses on how the business sustainability and accountability model are impacted by the collaboration of people, business, and resources
- Presents laws, rules, regulations, standards and best practices relevant to business sustainability performance, reporting and assurance
Organizations worldwide recognize the importance of all five EGSEE dimensions of sustainability performance and accountability reporting. However, how to actually assess sustainability risk, implement sustainability reporting, and obtain sustainability assurance remain a major challenge and best practices are evolving. Straightforward and comprehensive Business Sustainability and Accountability hits on all of the hottest topics around sustainability including multiple bottom line (EGSEE) performance and reporting, related financial and non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs), business social responsibility and environmental reporting.
About the Authors
ANN BROCKETT is the Americas Assurance Leader for Climate Change and Sustainability Services at Ernst & Young. Ms. Brockett serves a broad range of clients to identify and develop alternatives that address emerging risk areas and in providing financial and non-financial assurance services.
ZABIHOLLAH REZAEE is the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and Professor of Accountancy at the University of Memphis. He served a two-year term on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
In this Book
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Corporate Sustainability—Integrating Performance and Reporting
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Preface
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Introduction to Business Sustainability and Accountability Reporting
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Brief History of Sustainability Reporting
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Business Sustainability and Accountability Initiatives, Reporting, and Assurance
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Sustainability, Corporations, Capital Markets, and the Global Economy
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Economic Vitality as a Component of Sustainability
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The Corporate Governance Dimension of Sustainability
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The Social Dimension of Corporate Sustainability
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The Ethical Dimension of Sustainability
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The Environmental Dimension of Sustainability Performance: Government Policy, Societal Forces, and Environmental Management
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Business Sustainability in Action: Global Initiatives and Emerging Issues
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The Future of Business Sustainability: Sustainability Reporting and Assurance
