PAYING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
March 26, 2009 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: Paying for Sustainability [4]
This workshop seeks to address the question: “What do environmental managers need to know about accounting, economics, and finance?” Traditional topics in EH&S Management Accounting and Finance courses are focused on extensions of activity based costing (ABC) and material flow cost accounting—much of which is fairly new in its application to environmental management. For example, the evolving ISO 14501 outlines “new” material flow cost accounting standards and methods. These methods are relatively new subjects in EHS graduate programs, but are reasonably well established in the field of cost accounting. Other subjects, such as national income accounting, environmental valuation, carbon trading finance, environmental project evaluation, and environmental issues in financial accounting may be required knowledge for future EH&S Managers. This workshop seeks to explore and develop these issues with the participants.
This workshop will be moderated by Dr. James Myers.