Legislation for compulsory environmental reporting does exist in some form or the other. Examples of such countries are Denmark, Australia, Netherlands and Korea. The United Nations have need actively involved in the adoption of environmental accounting practices. This is mostly noticeable in the United Nations Divisions for sustainable development which published Environmental accounting procedures and principles (Leader, 2015).
Environmental reporting which can also be regarded as a subset of social accounting tends to focus on the cost structure and environmental performance of a company. It principally constitutes the preservation, presentation and communication of the information which is related to the organizations’ interaction with the natural environment. Previously environmental accounting was taken as a part of self-reporting which was done on a voluntary basis by the companies.
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family? • Finance: How much do you want to earn by what stage? • Physical: Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this? • Pleasure: How do you want to enjoy yourself? - you should ensure that some of your life is for you! • Public Service: Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If so, how? Once you have decided your goals in these categories, assign a priority to them from A to F. Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead. Also ensure that the goals that you have set are the goals that you want to achieve, not what your parents, spouse, family, or employers want them to be. How to Start to Achieve Your Lifetime Goals Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a 25 year plan of smaller goals that you should complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan. Then set a 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 6 month plan, and 1 month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should be based on the previous plan.
This is the stage at which you can use a technique like Drill-Down to break the problem down to its component parts. 4. Idea finding The next stage is to generate as many ideas as possible. Ways of doing this range from asking other people for their opinions, through programmed creativity tools and lateral thinking techniques to brainstorming. Do not evaluate ideas during this stage - concentrate on generating many ideas as possible. Bad ideas often trigger good ones. 5. Selection & Evaluation Once you have a number of possible solutions to your problem, it is time to select the best one. The best solution may be obvious. If it is not, then it is important to think through the criteria you will use to select the best idea. The Decision Making Techniques section of Mind Tools lays out a number of good methods for this. Particularly useful techniques may be Decision Trees, Paired Comparison Analysis and Grid Analysis. Once you have selected an idea, develop it as far as possible. It is then essential to evaluate it to see if it is good enough to be worth using. It is important not to let your ego get in the way of your common sense.
