Accounting in Organizations and Society Report - Stakeholder Analysis

This report examines the role of accounting within organizations and its broader societal impact. It begins by identifying and explaining the information needs of key stakeholder groups, including suppliers, consumers, employees, creditors, and owners, and how accounting data satisfies these needs. The report then applies the Balanced Scorecard framework to RTXM Clothing Company, focusing on the flexibility of delivery systems. A central case study analyzes the ethical implications of supplier selection, comparing a low-cost supplier with questionable labor and environmental practices (Super Cheap) against a sustainable supplier (Green Fashion). The report concludes by recommending the adoption of Green Fashion due to its alignment with the company's sustainability goals and discusses how prioritizing stakeholders can increase share value in the long term. The analysis highlights the importance of ethical considerations and sustainable practices in the global apparel industry.

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Table of Contents
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Question 1:
The five important stakeholder group of the company is identified and explanation regarding
the ways in which different accounts can be employed for satisfying the stakeholders information
needs are below:
 Suppliers: The accounting data is needed for them to make sure that it is focused on
tenets and controls and that it safeguards partners’ interest that rely on such data.
 Consumers: Clients have interest for the accounting data for surveying financial position
of a business, specially, when they have certain long term inclusion with, as it focuses on
maintaining an unfaltering source of business (Accenture 2017).
 Employees: Money related accounting is a center authoritative capacity in which
bookkeepers set up an assortment of records to educate partners of the budgetary
soundness of operations. Employees use the accounting data to ensure financial
wellbeing, offers and productivity measures of business to ensure their employer
stability, certain chance of future compensation, retirement benefits and work openings.
 Creditors: Loan bosses are considering attaining accounting data, as it facilitates them to
decide a business credit value. The credit terms and guidelines are determined to make
sure the financial wellbeing of a business, in this way, it encourages them to examine by
using the precise data (Chenhall and Moers 2015). Creditors include providers and
moneylenders, for example, banks. Exchange creditors are by and large affected by the
accounting data than banks.
 Owners: Owners use accounting data for analyzing the feasibility and gainfulness of their
assumptions. Accounting data encourages the owners to evaluate the business

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association’s capacity to pay profits. In addition, it also drives them to develop any future
game-plan (Corvellec et al. 2016).
Question 2:
The Balanced Scorecard is a valuable execution measure structure that can be utilized, as
it gives administration a general photo of organization's execution. Adjusted Scorecard is utilized
to help RTXM in dealing with its general organization's execution and exhibit how it attempts to
the administration and staff in next organization meeting (Dillard 2014). A major key
performance indicator that is focused on for developing the balance scorecard for RTXM
Clothing Company is flexibility of the delivery systems in order to address the demands of its
consumers.
Figure 1: Balanced Scorecard
(Source: Fashion Revolution CIC 2015)

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Question 3:
The CEO trusts the organization was appealing a result of its past low cost technique
however has additionally seen exceptional mindfulness from clients on the organization's social
responsibilities. A clarification to the CEO with reference to the potential expenses and
advantages of working with both Super Cheap and Green Fashion is given (Gunther, M 2016).
New providers to enhance the item quality had experienced a predicament. Super Cheap
who can give an extensive scope of items to fit in their business extension design with a focused
cost and all items can be provided in a short time span. Notwithstanding, after a cautious
examination concerning this current organization's experience, they discovered this provider has
a noteworthy issue with work conditions all through their supply chains, counting the utilization
of tyke work, low wages, and wellbeing and security risks, and long working hours. As far as the
ecological angle, Super Cheap devours a couple of thousand liters of water to create a cotton
shirt and more than ten-thousand liters to deliver a couple of pants, and wastewater release into
the nearby waterway, and it didn't make any move to settle this issue (Human Rights Watch
2017). The contaminated water is never again fit for drinking or clothing, angles never again
exist in this waterway; what's more, neighborhood living arrangements grumble that their homes
are overflowed by messy water.
Then again, RTXM has another potential provider, called Green Fashion, who as it were
gives constrained item run a higher cost, and items can be provided in a sensible time span. Be
that as it may, Green Fashion assesses supportability and makes it as a component of their
business, and their supportability motivation has been introduced on its site, counting style
outlines that is caring to the earth, they likewise morally source materials furthermore, work,
advance work-life adjust of the representative in the retail business, and give impetuses to their

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neighborhood and outsourcing accomplices and their representatives if their objectives are met.
The CEO and administration of RTXM learnt that Green Fashion has fundamentally the same as
qualities and maintainability motivation. RTXM considers maintainability as a major aspect of
the business (Kornberger, Pflueger and Mouritsen 2017). It is accounted for on their sites that the
organization needs to reexamine mold outlines with the goal that they are thoughtful to the
condition, to morally source materials and work, advance work-life adjust of the worker in the
retail business, and give impetuses to their neighborhood and outsourcing accomplices
furthermore, their representatives if their objectives are met.
Through analyzing the disadvantages associated with selecting Super Cheap supplier
along with observing the advantages offered by Green Fashion it can be recommended that
Green Fashion should be considered as a supplier (Remy, N Speelman & Swartz 2016).
Question 4:
The need for staying at the top of segment along with supportable utilization and creation
the company considers offering clients with great value, top notch items and management. The
company delivers our products with trustworthiness, making it sure by 2020, all the M&S item
offers a Plan A that is focused on best social practice or natural trait. In 2017, the company
expanded this dedication so that by 2025 each one of our items will have Plan A trait that address
each and every one of its material social and ecological effects (Samiolo 2017). For instance,
covering the key crude materials, industrial facility, utilizes and transfer arranges in an item's
lifecycle.

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Question 5:
The organization chooses to contract with the Green Fashion. A few vital investors
endeavored to hinder this proposition. Their conviction, as the proprietors of this organization, is
that the organization should expect to augment the estimation of their offers; nonetheless, the
new marketable strategy could essentially expand the expenses and in this way decrease the
benefit. An industry will be identified that can increase the share value in long term through
remaining responsible to the vital stakeholders (The Economist 2013).
From the cotton homestead to the garments manufacturing plant to the design appear, the
worldwide attire industry has more than its offer of social and natural issues. Behind the pictures
of excellence and style is a frequently grimy business that depends on water-concentrated
techniques and harmful chemicals in its manufacturing plants, the vast majority of them in poor
nations and avoided see. While piece of clothing work has given a pathway out of neediness –
now in China, however prior in the US and UK – no specialist ought to be presented to the
dangerous conditions that prompted cataclysms like in Bangladesh, where in 2013 the fall of the
basically risky Rana Plaza building slaughtered more than 1,100 laborers (Dillard 2014).
No organization can take care of such issues without anyone else. However a goal-
oriented push to unite the business to convey major developments presently can't seem to
convey. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), a worldwide organization together of
retailers, brands, providers, promotion gatherings, worker's parties and scholastics, means to
make "an attire, footwear and home materials industry that delivers no pointless natural trouble
and positively affects individuals and groups".

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Dillard, J., 2014. 14 Legitimating the social accounting project. Sustainability accounting and
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Fashion Revolution CIC 2015, It’s time for a Fashion Revolution, viewed 21 July 2017.
Gunther, M 2016, Despite the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, there's a lot you don't know about
that T-shirt, viewed 14 July 2017.
Human Rights Watch 2017, The Need for Supply Chain Transparency in the Garment and
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