環(huán)境管理會(huì)計(jì)信息主要是為組織內(nèi)部核算和決策服務(wù)的，其為內(nèi)部決策服務(wù)的程序既包括材料和能源消耗、流程及最終處置的實(shí)物程序，也包括與潛在環(huán)境影響活動(dòng)相關(guān)的成本、節(jié)約和收益的貨幣計(jì)量程序。
環(huán)境管理會(huì)計(jì)的理論基礎(chǔ)
1.可持續(xù)發(fā)展理論
它強(qiáng)調(diào)人類應(yīng)當(dāng)通過(guò)發(fā)展與自然相和諧的方式追求健康而富有生產(chǎn)成果的生活，而不是破壞和污染生態(tài)環(huán)境來(lái)追求發(fā)展�？沙掷m(xù)發(fā)展理論從為人類長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)利益的角度賦予了環(huán)境管理會(huì)計(jì)迫切發(fā)展的理論基礎(chǔ)。
2.經(jīng)濟(jì)的外部性理論
外部不經(jīng)濟(jì)內(nèi)部化的主要辦法，就是對(duì)企業(yè)的排污進(jìn)行收費(fèi)甚至罰款，這已經(jīng)被許多國(guó)家的政府所采納并得到實(shí)施。外部性理論要求國(guó)家制定相應(yīng)法規(guī)規(guī)范企業(yè)行為，使其承擔(dān)社會(huì)成本，督促其實(shí)行環(huán)境管理會(huì)計(jì)。
3.環(huán)境資源價(jià)值理論
作為國(guó)民財(cái)富的一部分，環(huán)境資源必然有其價(jià)值。此理論要求企業(yè)重視周圍環(huán)境的改善，將環(huán)境資源作為企業(yè)的一項(xiàng)資本對(duì)待，從而迫切要求環(huán)境管理會(huì)計(jì)對(duì)其價(jià)值進(jìn)行核算。
EMA is the generation and analysis of both financial and non-financial information in order to support internal environmental management processes. It is complementary to the conventional financial management accounting approach, with the aim to develop appropriate mechanisms that assist in the identification and allocation of environment-related costs (Bennett and James (1998a), Frost and Wilmhurst (2000)). The major areas for the application for EMA are:
product pricing
budgeting
investment appraisal
calculating costs and
savings of environmental projects, or setting quantified performance targets.
EMA is as wide-ranging in its scope, techniques and focus as normal management accounting. Burritt et al (2001) stated: 'there is still no precision in the terminology associated with EMA'. They viewed EMA as being an application of conventional accounting that is concerned with the environmentally-induced impacts of companies, measured in monetary units, and company-related impacts on environmental systems, expressed in physical units. EMA can be viewed as a part of the environmental accounting framework and is defined as 'using monetary and physical information for internal management use'.
Burritt et al developed a multi-dimensional framework of EMA. Their framework considers the distinctions between five dimensions:
internal versus external
physical versus monetary classifications
past and future timeframes
short and long terms and
ad hoc versus routine information gathering in the proposed framework for the application of EMA.
Within this framework the different techniques of EMA - such as environmental lifecycle costing or environmental cost accounting - can be placed and assigned. The management of a company can choose appropriate tools on the basis of their information needs.
Similarly, in a series of publications (1997, 1998a, 1998b), Bennett and James describe the diverse range and scope of environmental management accounting. They provide a set of useful models, one of which is 'The Environment-Related Management Accounting Pyramid', to help evaluate environmental management accounting practices as well as to help in the design and implementation of new systems.
According to Bennett and James (1998a), EMA is concerned with gathering data related to the environment (lowest levels), which are converted through techniques and processes (middle level) into information which is useful for managers (top). Key data is both non-financial and financial in nature. Management accounting techniques such as performance measurement, operational budgeting, costing or pricing are used for the transformation.
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