Importance of Environmental Disclosures in Corporate Reports

Accounting
Assignment

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ACC620 Contemporary Issues in Accounting
Semester 3 2018
Research Proposal
Student Name:
Title:
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(Note that the due date is Friday 21 December 11.59 pm via SafeAssign)
Acknowledgement:
I certify that I have carefully reviewed the university’s academic misconduct policy. I understand
that the source of ideas must be referenced and that quotation marks and a reference are required
when directly quoting anyone else’s words.
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Table of Content
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Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................3
Practical Motivation:...................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review:.......................................................................................................................................3
Proposition:.................................................................................................................................................5
Possible Methodology that could test the proposition:..............................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction:
The research deals with environmental issues that people around the globe are facing and
how companies are contributing to it due to large scale development that is happening. The
research draws attention to the importance of environmental disclosures in the reports of the
companies so that awareness is spread on how companies are performing to protect the
environment and in ways they can make the necessary changes, so that interest can be generated
in stakeholders to consider this as an important criterion to take investment decisions (Abdullah
& Said, 2017).
Practical Motivation:
This is important in many ways for the stakeholders or the managers and the public as
environmental degradation can huge loss to the companies in many ways as the future would be
devoid of resources in many ways. We also see that environmental degradation is also affecting
the society and public (Boghossian, 2017). Like in the article related to carbon emission it shows
how much companies that are involved in activities such as mining are affecting the environment
through uncontrolled environmental emission and thus it becomes important that change should
be there with respect to a control with respect to protection of environment and taking care of the
same (Belton, 2017).
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