scholarly journals A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN HOTEL SECTOR

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celani John Nyide
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
The South ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Hotel Sector

scholarly journals Enhancing a Decision-Making Framework to Address Environmental Impacts of the South African Coalmining Industry

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 4897
Author(s):  
Mashudu David Mbedzi ◽  
Huibrecht Margaretha van der Poll ◽  
John Andrew van der Poll
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
South African ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
The South ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Continuous Mining ◽  
Survey Interviews

The South African coalmining industry has a rich and long history and contributes significantly to the economic wellbeing of the country. Despite its importance in developing the economy, the industry is causing severe environmental challenges. For example, Emalahleni, a city situated in the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa, has been exposed for over a century to the continuous mining of coal. Challenges experienced include the sterilisation of land due to underground fires, water pollution, surface collapse, and acidification of topsoil. Previous work by the researchers formulated a conceptual framework aimed at addressing some of these challenges. In an extension of this work, the authors comprehensively enhance the preliminary framework on the strength of a set of qualitative propositions coupled with a parallel, exploratory survey. Interviews among various stakeholders were conducted, aimed at enhancing the components of the framework, followed by a focus group to validate the associations among the components of the framework. Aspects reinforced by the survey findings include the role of environmental management accounting, tools like material-flow cost accounting and life-cycle costing, and regulatory and accountability aspects. New aspects elicited from the interviews and the focus group include stakeholder education and training with respect to the value of environmental management accounting for the coalmining industry; adherence to risk management linked to environmental challenges; advanced technologies, for example, financial modelling; and an improved understanding of waste management aspects around acid mine drainage, volatile organic components, CO2 emissions, and post-mine closure. The novelty of the work lies in the approach taken to address coalmining challenges. Previous authors concentrated mostly on scientific and engineering aspects, while this research looks at it from an accounting perspective using environmental management accounting tools to address these challenges.

Aspetti evolutivi dell'Environmental Management Accounting: l'Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Michele A. Rea ◽  
Lucia Stella
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
New Research ◽  
Traditional Activity

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is a new research field on accounting born to overcome conventional management accounting's limits about environmental costs. This work offers a literary review on EMA. In particular, the Authors in the first part describe a series of LCC-oriented tools which characterise Environmental Management Accounting. The second section, passing through the "traditional" Activity-Based Costing, presents the Activity-Based LCC methodology, which combines the activity-based approach with the life-cycle perspective for environmental costs. In conclusion, the Authors propose new research lines on EMA.

scholarly journals Environmental management accounting practices: major control issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celani John Nyide ◽  
Lawrence Mpela Lekhanya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Hotel Sector

The use of environmental management accounting (EMA) remains debated in South Africa and the literature reveals that EMA is still at an infancy stage in the emerging economies, including South Africa. Currently, there is limited existing research on environmental management accounting practices available for use by the hotel sector in South Africa. The overall aim of this study was to investigate and describe the use of the environmental management accounting tools by the hotel sector in the 3-5 star categories in KwaZulu-Natal. The research was an exploratory study and qualitative in nature using a single case study with embedded units approach. It is envisaged that study will bridge the gap that exists in South Africa as far as environmental management accounting is concerned and it will also make the provision of meaningful results for policy decision making by the relevant stakeholders in the hotel industry. Moreover, it established factors that drive and/or hinder the implementation of EMA tools that would control and manage environmental costs and their root causes

scholarly journals Barriers of implementation of environmental management accounting in business practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Petra Mísařová
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Information System ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting

Environmental management accounting is a very important source of information for decision-making management of the company. In many companies there were created a detailed and dynamic system of recording and processing of data on environmental costs that companies mistakenly issued for environmental management accounting. And also today for environmental accounting in the CR it is characteristic that in organizations is not normal monitoring of the environmental costs con­si­de­red as part of an integrated system for monitoring and evaluation of material, energy and financial flows. Companies do not use a wide range of options that the environmental management accounting provides. Why do not companies introduce environmental management accounting into its information system and do not use all the opportunities that EMA provides? In practice there are many barriers that prevent full-fledged process of implementation of environmental management accounting in the information system of companies. Many barriers were identified and were therefore subjected to cluster analysis. Clusters filled by identified barriers under the rules of cluster analysis are the result of cluster analysis.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENERAPAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (EMA) DALAM MENINGKATKAN EKO-EFISIENSI USAHA (Studi Kasus Pada Rumah Sakit Ibnu Sina YW-UMI Kota Makassar)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-253
Author(s):  
Indrawan Azis ◽  
Andi Widiawati ◽  
Annisa Aprilia Nur
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
The Impact

Current issues related to the environment to be one of the issues that got the attention of the public. Awareness of the community to participate in protecting the environment is increasing from time to time. It encourages businesses as part of the community itself, to participate in maintaining the environment in ways that minimize the risk of environmental damage as a result of the operational company's. In this case, the needed cost of the so-called environmental costs. Environmental costs necessary to achieve eco-efficiency efforts, one of which is the use of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), by identifying environmental costs by classifying into the category of environmental quality to evaluate their environmental performance.  This study uses the Ibnu Sina Hospital YW-UMI Makassar City engaged in health services as research objects. In this study the author uses descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that the Ibnu Sina Hospital YW-UMI Makassar City yet to implement Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), manage environmental costs, but this hospital has managed the impact of the environment.

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