Talk:Sustainability accounting/Archives/2018

Making Improvements

As part of a course, I will be making additions to this article. Below are my suggestions:

What can be improved: The style/tone of the article is not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. A majority of the information provided by this article needs to be updated to include new frameworks and initiatives for sustainability accounting. Additionally, as mentioned in the week 4 critique of the article, there is a lack of discussion regarding the methods, reasons, and benefits of sustainability accounting.

Contributions to selected article: I will add a section detailing the different methods that companies are using to measure their sustainability efforts. I will also discuss how these sustainability measurements are tied to overall corporate goals. Additionally, I will add a section discussing the different motivations that companies may have to practice sustainability accounting. Finally, I will also add a section regarding the benefits of sustainable accounting (financial and non-financial).

Bibliography: Possible sources to add to the article include:

• Adams, C. and Frost G. (2008, December). Integrating sustainability reporting into management practices. Accounting Forum, 32(4), 288-302. doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2008.05.002
• Ameer, R. and Othman, R. (2012, June). Sustainability Practices and Corporate Financial Performance: A Study Based on the Top Global Corporations. J Bus Ethics, 108(1), 61-79. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-1063-y
• Brown H., Jong M., and Levy D. (2009, April). Building institutions based on information disclosure: lessons from GRI’s sustainability reporting. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(6), 571-580. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2008.12.009
• Gray, R.H. (1994, February). Corporate Reporting for Sustainable Development: Accounting for Sustainability in 2000AD. Environmental Values, 3(1), 17-45. doi.org/10.3197/096327194776679782
• Möller, A. and Schaltegger, S. (2015, October). The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Eco-efficiency Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 9(4), 73-83. doi:10.1162/108819805775247927
• Perrini, F. and Tencati, A. (2006, September). Sustainability and stakeholder management: the need for new corporate performance evaluation and reporting systems. Bus. Strat. Env., 15(5), 296-308. doi: 10.1002/bse.538
• Rodriguez, A., Cotran, H., & Stewart, L. (2017, June). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sustainability Disclosure: Findings from a Recent SASB Study. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 29(2), 100-108. doi.org/10.1111/jacf.12237
• Schaltegger, S. and Burritt, R. (2010, October). Sustainability accounting for companies: Catchphrase or decision support for business leaders? Journal of World Business, 45(4), 375-384. doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2009.08.002

Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions.

Rachelhannahlee (talk) 21:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Le Zhou's Peer Review

The notes at the beginning of the article stated that the tone or style of the article may not reflect the encyclopedic tone. I think sustainability accounting is a very professional term in financial area, so the persona of this article should be more academic and straight. Also for terms in financial area, it is necessary to use some data and statistics to reinforce explanations for the subject.

Sections Rachel plans to add for the article are very essential, I believe. Companies will need to know methodology to measure the outcome of sustainability accounting and what benefits they will obtain from it. Also motivations to carry out sustainability accounting are also an important part to understand why sustainability accounting can be adopted. But I am curious whether Rachel will create a new section for the method they use to measure the suitability efforts, or add those contents as part of the existing Methodology section. Lezhou1 (talk) 04:05, 3 March 2018 (UTC)