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Environmental accounting
adds environmental information to the financial information of
conventional accounting. Environmental accounting identifies, measures,
and communicates the costs to the environment from a company's past or
future actions. Ecological impacts can be recorded in financial terms
or in physical terms, dependent upon the method of accounting used.
Keywords
EMA, Environmental Management
Accounting, Global Environmental Accounting, National Environmental
Accounting, Corporate, environmental management accounting,
environmental financial accounting, ecological economics, environmental
economics, green business, green accounting, socially responsible
business practices, natural capital, natural capitalism, full cost
accounting, life-cycle assessment, valuing externalities, scarcity,
natural resources, ecosystem services
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