Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2012, 60(4), 307-318 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201260040307

Development of environmental management accounting and EMAS over time

Petra Ptáčková Mísařová
Ústav účetnictví a daní, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika

Environmental management accounting (EMA) is a system that collects, records, evaluates and transmits information about environmentally induced financial impacts and environmental impacts of the given system. In 2006 and 2010 there were two questionnaire surveys. The first survey was carried out under the resolution of grant, which was funded by the Internal Grant Agency of the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, No. 68/2006, entitled "Development of the EMAS and environmental management accounting in the Czech Republic". The second evaluated questionnaire survey was conducted in the study, which was made in connection with solution of the thesis of author's article. Group of 25 companies that had validated EMAS during the first questionnaire survey was subjected to a survey. The second questionnaire survey was carried out in the same companies in order to make evaluation of development over time. The aim of this paper is to create coherent conclusion about firms that had or have validated EMAS system and use a voluntary instrument EMA in its corporate practice. Partial aim is to evaluate the development of validated organizations and 'sites' with EMAS in time in EU countries. EMAS is a system of management of company and audits in terms of environmental protection. This system is applied within the European Union.

Keywords: environmental management accounting, EMAS, EMA, questionnaire survey
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The results introduced in the paper are part of the research project No. 6215648904 "The Czech economy in the process of integration and globalization and the development of agrarian sector and service sector in the new conditions of European integrated market".

Received: December 13, 2011; Published: August 7, 2013  Show citation

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Ptáčková Mísařová, P. (2012). Development of environmental management accounting and EMAS over time. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 60(4), 307-318. doi: 10.11118/actaun201260040307
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