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Book SynopsisThe whole quality of auditing and financial reporting has been called into question since Enron, World Com and other crimes became public knowledge. These papers expose the hypocrisy of paying lip service to the reporting of environmental disasters and the need for improvement.
Table of ContentsThe identification, measurement, and reporting of corporate social impacts - past, present, and future, M.J. Epstein; legitimacy and the internet - an examination of corporate web page environmental disclosures, D.M. Patten, W. Crampton; impact of the Clean Air Act of 1990 on pollution disclosures by electric utilities, M. Freedman et al; financial analysts' views of the value of environmental information, H.G. Hunt III, D. Jacque Grinnell; the impact of corporate social responsibility on the informativeness of earnings and accounting choices, A. Riahi-Belkaoui; an assessment of the quality of environmental disclosure themes, W.D. Walden, A.J. Stagliano.