Evaluation of the Impact of Business on the Environment Using Green Accounting Indexes and Modern Statistical Methods

Savvas Savvidis and Dimitrios Ginoglou
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Savvas Savvidis: University of Macedonia, Department of Accounting and Finance
Dimitrios Ginoglou: University of Macedonia, Department of Accounting and Finance

South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 2013, vol. 11, issue 1, 49-58

Abstract: To date, accounting and financial sciences have attempted to assess companies using financial ratios and other techniques that evaluate only the front office, without considering its impact on the environment. Recently, this assessment has been expanded to include new concepts, known as corporate social responsibility and social balance. These new concepts are usually viewed and studied using a multidisciplinary perspective with an aim to update the current and future value of the company. In this evolving scientific field a considerable effort has been made to objectively record and calculate the environmental impact of a company's activities by integrating these elements into a new form of economic balance sheet. The present paper seeks to examine the presence of weighted environmental indexes and explores the process by which they can be used to evaluate a company.

Keywords: Econophysics; Enviromental Indexes; Neural Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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