“Management accounting and financial accounting both play a role in the development of a robust environmental policy that will contribute to longer- term organizational success.” 3033 Words Introduction Through times, the issue of global warming which is define as the continuing rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans is being closely monitored. There are several mega effects that arise due to the effect of global warming. This includes the ever increasing temperatures that start forest fires such as Indonesia, the reporting issue of stranded polar bears, the melting ofglaciers at Himalayas, the extreme heat of sunscalds that causes death, the floods that caused by El Nino a nd etc. This is all resulte d from the act of us, human . We reap the sow that we seeded. One of the highlig hts that caus e suc h dev asta ting ef fect came fro m the un brid led ind ust rial gro wth and dev elop ment thro ug hou t out mot her Eart h’s. The societ y bec ome s mor e awa re of the con seq uen ces wit h the increasing environmental issues and thus they begin to demand a modicum of environmental friendly behavio ur as pa rt of the agreeme nt in ev ery bus iness manage ment. Even though they did aware of the issues that arise and huge amount of cash have been spent on the enviro nmental awarene ss convention s yet there are still lack of constructive action to be taken in. At the same time, factories keep on polluting our environme nt with toxins , natural habitat such as forest are destroyed by human for their leisure projects including golf coast and villas, and etc. If things go on, soon our ecosystem will be ruin. As such, authorities in figures started to give out pressure to the parties involved. This lead to environmental management accounting in waste and recycling management to rose from the bushes. Aside from the authorities, there are also increases in community scrutiny on environmental issues in waste management. From all these, the development of environmental policy is needed in order to protect t he enviro nment from further abuse. Through the publicity and awareness campaign that launched, the theme “Green” was born. Green and organic products begin to pop up in the market. Recent studies indicate that more and more consumers willing to participate in the “Green” theme such as recycles and some even pay double forgreen products as an effort to maintain the ecosystem for the future generations. More and more green produc ts are develo ped by the co mpanies t hat get a hold of the d ata. Hence, in creasing t heir sales and rise in their gains are to be expected. In reaching their goals, they may neglect the environmental issues. (Borin, Cerf and Krishnan, 2011) 1 Choong Lee Mon The University of Greenwich
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3033 Words
Introduction
Through times, the issue of global warming which is define as the continuing rise in the average
temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans is being closely monitored. There are several mega
effects that arise due to the effect of global warming. This includes the ever increasing temperatures
that start forest fires such as Indonesia, the reporting issue of stranded polar bears, the melting of
glaciers at Himalayas, the extreme heat of sunscalds that causes death, the floods that caused by El
Nino and etc.
This is all resulted from the act of us, human. We reap the sow that we seeded. One of the highlights
that cause such devastating effect came from the unbridled industrial growth and developmentthroughout out mother Earth’s. The society becomes more aware of the consequences with the
increasing environmental issues and thus they begin to demand a modicum of environmental friendly
behaviour as part of the agreement in every business management.
Even though they did aware of the issues that arise and huge amount of cash have been spent on the
environmental awareness conventions yet there are still lack of constructive action to be taken in. At
the same time, factories keep on polluting our environment with toxins, natural habitat such as forest
are destroyed by human for their leisure projects including golf coast and villas, and etc. If things go
on, soon our ecosystem will be ruin.
As such, authorities in figures started to give out pressure to the parties involved. This lead to
environmental management accounting in waste and recycling management to rose from the bushes.
Aside from the authorities, there are also increases in community scrutiny on environmental issues in
waste management. From all these, the development of environmental policy is needed in order to
protect the environment from further abuse.
Through the publicity and awareness campaign that launched, the theme “Green” was born. Green
and organic products begin to pop up in the market. Recent studies indicate that more and more
consumers willing to participate in the “Green” theme such as recycles and some even pay double for
green products as an effort to maintain the ecosystem for the future generations. More and more green
products are developed by the companies that get a hold of the data. Hence, increasing their sales and
rise in their gains are to be expected. In reaching their goals, they may neglect the environmental
issues. (Borin, Cerf and Krishnan, 2011)
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Arise from the issues, implementing of the environmental policy will helps in reducing the impact of
global warming. With the implementation of the policy, companies need to adhere to the demand of
legislation and maintain their commitment towards the ecosystem. Thus, a healthier and safer place
can be created within the community. Aside from that, the company can also enhance their images in
the community and bring more brand names as well as improve the company’s financial bottom line.
This resulted in some of the companies to behave and act in a more socially responsible way towards
running their business. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
In order to explore and enhance the policy, many studies that focus on how they deal with the
environment, the impacts on the companies are being performed throughout the companies regardless
of their type and size, public or private, profit or non-profit and etc. This result is highly anticipated
by the suppliers, customers, regulators and the public at large. With the implementation of theenvironmental policy, the environment can get its reassurance that companies are operating
responsibly. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
Throughout the last decades, the societies have become more concern over the issues of pollution,
depletion in resources, hazardous wastage and other environmental problems. Thus, this lead to a
more stringent environmental regulation on the product end-of-life as well as on the production
processes. In other words, new rules and regulations have been enacted to monitor the companies for
their environmental responsibilities. All in all, the increasing needs of the companies to adhere to
environmental issues leads to an increasing numbers in the companies to include environmental issues
into their modus of operation especially on the health and safety issue due to the change in legislation.
(Psomas, Fotopoulos and Kafetzopoulos, 2011)
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Role of Financial Accounting
Traditional accounting systems and reporting had no disclose the impact of environmental issues on a
company’s financial results and position or requiring separate reporting on items for example
expenditures for pollution prevention, clean up, and fines. The actual and contingent liabilities for
environmental clean ups from past operations and pollutant emissions and resource utilization also did
not disclose in annual reports. Until 1996 there was nothing in Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP) that explicitly required to reporting of either environmental capital costs or
environmental operating costs. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
If information on environmental considerations is failure to report may prohibit users from classifying
factors providing material long-term benefits to an organization or presenting long-term materialrisks, and might focus on short-term financial performance capacity’s decision perspective rather than
a complete longer-term perception of the user. The development to present a more complete move
towards in quality control management to reporting on environmental costs and benefits can benefit
stakeholders and managers when apply the significant information. (Rainborn, Butler and Massoud,
2011)
As stakeholders’ influences become important for issue such as public image and relations,
corporations must providing information to deal with their connection with stakeholders to obtaining
their approval and support. Making that information available is one way to achieve that objective,
either by producing a separate report concerning their social responsibility activities or by providing
that information in their annual reports. (Oeyono, Samy and Bampton, 2011)
Environmental reporting is built-in into annual financial reports also as environmental reports. The
expected environmental information might be helpful to shareholders and others in considering the
environmental risk disclosure of a company. A company which environmental information is reported
such as environmental operating costs and environmental capital costs may reflects the company’s
pollution. It would be concern to investors as well as to government regulatory agencies concerned
with financial reporting if reporting does not reflect pollution activities. Nevertheless, for disclosure
to be of value, it must reflect actual events described by the disclosure, in this case, environmental
costs. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
The amount of environmental capital costs and environmental operating costs reported by firms is
important for several reasons. The motivating are Firms face great challenges and uncertainties in
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reporting environmental costs, Known and potential environmental costs are very significant and
Suppliers, customers, investors, and other stakeholders currently desire detailed information about
firms’ environmental costs. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
Taxes influence the dividend decisions, financing, investment of companies. They influence
individual decisions about the way to spend revenue as well. Persuade investments in environment
protection mechanisms can be a force by tax systems when it comes to environmental linked
decisions by individuals or company, or they are able to use to depress environmental destruction, by
commanding a high tax load on activities. The tax system is able to make incentives to adjust the
outflows in inflows connected to environmental investment projects, so increasing their return after
tax rate, and the tax system are capable be apply to punish company or individuals that slot in
activities. So that the income tax is able to be apply to encourage individuals to obtain assets for environmental protection, by compromise these acquirements status, by tax credits as a policy tool.
(Martins, 2011)
The activity’s scope further than those groups straight connected to the company and the instant
natural environment to take in long-range environmental implications and a bigger set of stakeholder
groups. The primary decision criteria constitutes by the environmental impact. The time, and social
scope develop and the task point of view can obtain on the characters of a long-range task, does not
like traditional capital budgeting task or long-range setting up movements. Environmentally
enlightened management supports by an accounting information system centre on the long-term
relations between the natural environment, the organization, and the wider community and identify
these predicated contacts on common support, not self interested rivalry. For recognizing and relating
stakeholders in organizational decisions, can be processes and facility location, infrastructure design
and product, a process must be developed that facilitate effective schemes. (Dillard, Brown and
Marshall, 2005)
Any resolution with long-term suggestion requires the upcoming environmental impact’s projections.
Recognizing, measuring, and monitoring local, district, and worldwide environmental conditions and
determining the possible impact of substitute courses of action are involve in the long-term
projections. Associated issue comprise cost of monitoring and measuring the importance of
environmental conditions, carbon offsets, impacts, and life cycle analysis. Management have to be
supported in and sensitized to, such result, and there ought to be information systems in situate to
assist and sustain these decisions. (Dillard, Brown and Marshall, 2005)
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Environmental audits observe the whole environmental management system. The core objectives are
to verify official compliance and to recover inefficiencies which might diminish both environmental
costs and impacts. A suitable information support does not only reduce the basic efforts to bring out
the audit, it improves the audit’s result also. Audits are performed to observe whether the management
system meets the relevant standards’ requirements. Even though they are official and not result-
oriented standards, suitable data may sustain the job of the registrar. (Letmathe and Doost, 2000)
Role of Managementl Accounting
Environmental cost usually is treated as overhead costs and allocated randomly in the traditional
management accounting. For instant, emission, waste water charges, and waste disposal may be
accumulated and allocated randomly among the different type of the cost centre. These practises are
unable to provide any incentive for the cost centres to diminish the environmental impacts and thecost. (Letmathe and Doost, 2000)
management accounting play an essential role to improved the competitive advantages among the
industries and assists to create a well organise decision making and integrated perspective of strategic
planning, operations performance and financial decision to the manager. Information beneath the
managements accounting also provide appropriate information for manager to decide the profitability
and sustain in economy. Failure of development of management accounting systems achieved the
demand require by the management, the systems may affect the operation of the organisations facing
the impacts of environmental. (Islam and Kantor, 2005)
There are three types of advantages which are directly connected with the enhancement of
environmental management under the rules and regulation of the environmental policy. Initially,
organisation could be potential gain profitability through the improvement of organisation
performance via a well organised of the provision of the environmental resources and increasing the
ability of implementing new technologies such as cleaner production. Organisations also can
increasing the reputational by operate according the environmental guidelines, for example, produce
the product in the economy which are environmentally- sensitive products or service which can gain
from the greener reputation as well as increased the relationship with the consumer, government and
stakeholder. Lastly, it also will assists the organisation reduce the compliance costs of regulations.
Organisation performing willingly in the conservation of the environment will assists organisations
convinces the environmental public regulator which no need to reinforce public regulation or apply
new ones; in this sense, through voluntary action, companies are able to attain more flexible public
environmental regulations, a delay in their execution or even their imprison. (Cabugueira, 2004)
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A wider extent of information for making a well designed and great internal decision require the
element of the accurate identifying, gathering, analysis and exercise the data contain in the
environmental management accounting. That information include the physical information on
exercise and flows of energy, water and material include wastes, monetary data on environmental-
related costs, earning and saving, indirect environmental data in overheads and information which
transform outside the assumed, legitimate boundary of the business. The traditional management
accounting systems are imperfect in the way the identified the essential of environmental benefits and
costs compared with the environmental management accounting. Environmental management
accounting are more favourable to sustain for the quality environmental management since
environmental management accounting are more wider scale of environmental information towards
target of long term successful in robust the organisations performance in economy. (Qian, Burritt andMonroe, 2011)
The environmental and non-environmental aggregation costs in overhead accounts environmental
costs in the traditional cost accounting being treat as hidden cost by the management. There is a
significant prove that managements tends to underestimate costs of the output by hidden the
environmental costs. EMA allow the management to recognising, assessing and allocating the
environmental costs in order to provide opportunities for costs saving and measure the cost saving of
the investment project plan. Environmental costs include costs such as internal and external costs
which have the relation with the environmental damage and protection. Environmental protection
costs consist of costs for planning, prevention, disposal, shifting actions control and damage repair
that potential being facing in governments, companies or people. Therefore , government require to
play a important role to apply political implements for example eco-taxes and emission control
regulations in order to insist on the ‘polluter pay’ principle and hence to combine external costs into
company calculations. (Qian, Burritt and Monroe, 2011)
The purpose of environmental management system is to monitor and prevent the environment impacts
affect the operation of the organisations and sustain the environmental enhancement as well as
organisation performance. Under the ISO 14001 standards and EMS guidelines, Environmental
management systems being as one of the part of management system which consists of the
organisational arrangement, decision making planning, liability, training, processing, development
and resources for develop, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining the environment rules
and regulations. Consequently, the crucial perception of any management system or environmental
management system is founded on the plan-do-check-act cycle through which constant environmental
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enhancements possibly will be attained. Beside the aspiring of attain the level of environmental
performance, environmental management also able to lead the organisation to achieved the
organisational own goal of profitability. ( Albelda, 2011)
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) is the most powerful instrument for organisation to
enhance the environmental performance and improved the organisation performance. EMS are able to
assist the organisations by reducing the possibility of environmental liabilities, increasing the
potential of competent exercise the natural resources, diminishing waste, increasing the good
reputational, create the alert of environmental concern among the staff, received a better
understanding of environmental impacts on the organisations operations and increasing the
profitability. (Psomas, Fotopoulos and Kafetzopoulos, 2011)
ABC play an essential role to provide a well designed decision comprises the selection of products,
activities and product mix, and pricing as well as outsourcing. ABC also provides quality or support
for TQM proposal in order to ensure the Just In Time synergies. Ultimately, ABC also exercises as the
better communications relationship between the customer management and supplier evaluation.
(Sartorius, Eitzen and Kamala, 2007).
Benefits and Problems of Environmental Policy
According to the author’s survey, a lot of companies thought that if environmental policies were not
implemented and adopted, their corporate image would be damaged, and they are start recognized that
developing effective environmental policies are importance. A lot of companies were starting to
embrace corporate social responsibility extra widely by trying to embed ethics structurally and good
environmental practice into their organizations. Although many of them had yet to attain a successful
environmental procedures and practices were execute organization-wide, but they had progress a long
way in terms of closing the gap between stated environmental policy and environmental practice.
(Faulkner, Carlisle and Viney, 2005)
Organizations have managed performance and profitability by expanding needs for environmental
information. They need to persuade the markets that their environmental performance and practices
are either risky to their financial profitability or to the environment. Furthermore, to meet
accountability prospect and compete efficiently, information must be communicated to regulators,
customers, and other concerned parties. Reporting information in a helpful format and in an
appropriate manner suggests to the recipients that the organization has developed good management
practices about environmental issues. (Ashcroft and Smith, 2008)
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Environmental policy may assist a corporation develop the environmental performance, develop
image with the regulators, community and investors, avoid pollution, reduce costs, preserve resources
and create a centre of attention from new customers and markets through the environmental
management. It encourages companies as well to recognize accountability for the protection of the
environment, certifying the ecological management’s incessant improvement. Companies can develop
the capability of controlling and managing their environmental performance by implementing the
policy, identify better employees’ responsibilities and incorporate the management of environmental
issues and quality. Thus, the embracing of an EMS presents credibility, goodwill, increased
Environmental policy stresses the require for incessant development in motivating to save the
environment, not only for ourselves but for future generations as well. (Psomas, Fotopoulos andKafetzopoulos, 2011)
Environmental policy has small impact on the public observation and competitiveness. The probable
impacts on competitiveness are certainly small, and that this gap in observation just be a sign of the
success of lobby groups in making a public fear to influence policy. The impacts on competitiveness
are potentially larger than the data propose, but that manufacturer have been doing well in certifying
that where relatively strong environmental regulations are bring in these are come with other forms of
subvention or safeguard which diminish most of the effects. (Ulph, 2002)
Organizations are facing difficulties in meeting the environmental policy requirements. They keep on
practicing opposition and challenges when executing and maintaining the requirement, whether they
are in occupational wellbeing and safety, quality, environmental or others part. Even though policy
was developed to help organizations, there are a few issue that might avoid a company from
effectively implementing, for example, an EMS may causes staff resist the improve in their
responsibilities; unwillingness from management to give the resources and time to execute the EMS;
and the trust that it does not require to be continually reviewed and improved once the EMS took
place. (Psomas, Fotopoulos and Kafetzopoulos, 2011)
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Conclusion
Management accounting and financial accounting share ordinary sets of data and practice in the
financial accounting area. There is an obvious connection between financial accounting and
management accounting practices, although management accounting professionals are not required to
pursue financial accounting model. Lots of those are accountable for turn out reports and other
supporting documents to validate or dispute an issue that requires accounting analysis were educated
and were influenced by the accounting profession. (Islam and Kantor, 2005)
Accounting standard-setting bodies and governmental agencies should know the importance of
additional disclosure requirements. Both conservatives consent that disclosure is an attractive policy
tool, which normally increases market competence by removing informational asymmetries. The
company’s market position improvement, the exchange from conventional to sustainable exercise, theenhanced connection with society causes improved environmental performance and the development
of waste processing were the hidden construct of the Environmental policy's benefits. A strong
environmental policy should develop to reduce impact, to improve organization’s performance in the
future to protect the environment. (Qian, Burritt and Monroe, 2011)
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