Talk:Social accounting/Archives/2012

Extension
How about a short section on the French bilan social and the British 2006 Companies Act...--SasiSasi (talk) 13:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

KPMG has published some surveys on the areas companies report on in their CR reports, might be a good source. --SasiSasi (talk) 14:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Audience and Format
Audience seems to fit well into the scope of social accounting, as it specifies its target group. Format could also be moved into 'Applications of Social accounting', as it refers to implementation in practice. Shadesofx (talk) 14:46, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Re-directs
I created re-directs for Social and Environmental Accounting, Corporate Social Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Non-Financial Reporting --SasiSasi (talk) 14:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Intro
I have re-aranged the intro, it took an aful long time until the reader found out what this is all about. The notability of the subject is evident from the article, hence no need to establish notability in the intro. --SasiSasi (talk) 14:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

reporting areas
I will take out: "Ethical consumer, the alternative consumer organisation, collects and categorises information of more than 30.000 companies according to their performance in five main areas, composing the Ethiscore[13]:

Environment: Environmental Reporting, Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Pollution & Toxics, Habitats & Resources People: Human Rights, Workers' Rights, Supply Chain Policy, Irresponsible Marketing, Armaments Animals: Animal Testing, Factory Farming, Other Animal Rights Politics: Political Activity, Boycott Call, Genetic Engineering, Anti-Social Finance, Company Ethos Product Sustainability: Organic, Fairtrade, Positive Environmental Features, Other Sustainability "

There is a difference between CR reporting and organisations that score companies. --SasiSasi (talk) 14:04, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

While there is indeed a difference in the approach, Ethiscore serves as an excellent example of the areas of concern in social accounting. It is in fact included in the field's standard textbook, 'Accounting and accountability : changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting / Rob Gray, Dave Owen, Carol Adams'. I would thus question the merits of deleting the section, although the difference could be formulated more clearly. Maybe there are more opinions on this Shadesofx (talk) 14:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

mmm.. ethiscore is a nice example of areas for which a company may be considered responsible, but neither highly regarded nor widely known. Why not use GRI or the UNGC (COP), theses are actual repoting guidelines that specifyy content (in detail). Also, there needs to be a bit on materiality (AA1000), as companies usually prioritise and choose the areas they report on according to materaility (also AA1000AS). You can start a whole article on organisations that score, rank and screen CSR, e.g. BITC, FTSE4Good, DowJonesSustainability Index... I think thats a whole subject in itself. A key point is that the areas of reporting is disputed (because it links to the question for what a company or organisation is actually responsible), hence the importance of materaility and stakeholder engagement. if your interested in the subject, you might like corporateregister.com --SasiSasi (talk) 16:13, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

By the way, you could move the bit I have taken out to Ethical Consumerism. I think it would fit in nicely. --SasiSasi (talk) 16:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Done, see Ethical Consumerism--SasiSasi (talk) 12:34, 26 July 2008 (UTC)