Metrics for Sustainable Business

<p><em>Metrics for Sustainable Business</em> is the first book to give students a comprehensive understanding of sustainability in organizations from an accounting perspective. The book walks student through the steps for doing a sustainability assessment and aims to develop them into financial analysts who understand sustainability reports and are able to create or audit them.</p><p>While most books focus on environmental issues Herriott trains his gaze on the corporate and institutional perspective covering measurement systems how to evaluate and improve a standard and conducting a life cycle assessment. Walking students through the programs of disclosure the varying standards for corporate ratings and organizational certification allows them to grasp the tools for conducting a sustainability assessment and auditing reports. Chapters on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions water use and waste introduce students to the technical details in sustainability accounting while a chapter on the philosophies of sustainability offers an answer to the question Why are they asking us to report <i>that</i>? </p><p>Richly demonstrated with practical examples and informative visuals this book will serve students of sustainability accounting and integrated reporting.</p>