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Catching Companies Who Refuse To Go Green Red-Handed, Wylee Mcgreevy
Catching Companies Who Refuse To Go Green Red-Handed, Wylee Mcgreevy
Honors Theses
Recycling, planting trees, and bringing your own bags to the grocery store are some of the activities people regularly think about when it comes to sustainability. In the grand scheme of life, how much difference can one person make? What if there were stricter standards for corporations which accounted for their emission of pollutants? Environmental Accounting is a branch of accounting that is progressively gaining popularity and has the potential to redefine the standards of sustainability for companies. With integration of past proposals for a carbon tax and a cap and trade system, a new proposal could be formed that …
An Investigation Into Recent Developments In The Regulatory Regime For Financial Accounting In Ireland, Mark James
An Investigation Into Recent Developments In The Regulatory Regime For Financial Accounting In Ireland, Mark James
Theses
In the last decade the Irish accounting regulatory regime has been radically reformed from one consisting largely of private sector regulation to one where public sector regulation has increased importance. This change has taken place within a larger international context of the rise of the regulatory state, and a period of greater convergence between regulatory activities internationally. While an extensive body of research on this topic has accumulated in other countries, particularly America, Irish research has generally been focussed on the role of the accounting profession in this development. This study aims to build on the existing literature by focusing …