Environmental management accounting: analysis of environmental costs and decision-making in the organisation [articol]

Abstract

Environmental management accounting (EMA) is a relatively new tool in environmental management. EMA can be defined as the identification, collection, estimation, analysis, internal reporting, and use of information regarding materials and energy flow and environmental costs for both conventional and environmental decision-making process within an organisation. Thus, EMA incorporates and integrates two of the three milestones of sustainable development (environmental and economics dimensions), as they relate to an organisation’s internal decisional process.