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1 – 2 of 2Cornelia Dascalu, Chirata Caraiani, Camelia Iuliana Lungu, Florian Colceag and Gina Raluca Guse
The purpose of this paper is to examine the externalities in social environmental accounting.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the externalities in social environmental accounting.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the fundamental research that is related to inductive accounting theory and uses scientific methods for identification of theoretical and practical difficulties of recognizing the externalities in social environmental accounting.
Findings
The main finding of the paper is that the information portfolio for the assessment of the externalities will contribute to the accurate estimation of the accounting offer and to the objective judgment of the requested information of this kind within the global performance management. This feat will allow construction of a pertinent informational base concerning the externalities, for integration of the external social costs into the conventional accounting model with a view to smoothly substantiating the socioeconomic and environmental policies.
Practical implications
This paper focuses on designing a social arrangement that, in the presence of externalities, can offer an optimal allocation of resources and thus a maximization of welfare for Romanian companies.
Originality/value
The paper helps put the organization in a stronger competitive position in relation to firms that apply only conventional accounting and is not extensively and creatively in using the outcomes of expanding social environmental accounting in its decision making.
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