Material Flow Cost Accounting in the Supply Chain
During a meeting in the last week of June 2012, the development of an additional standard on Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) was discussed. After publication of ISO14051 on Material Flow Cost Accounting in September 2011, the need for additional guidance for implementation of MFCA was identified. Read More
Sustainability Reporting Conference
The final call for papers for the 2011 conference has now been issued
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Sustainability Reporting in Zimbabwe
On 27 January 2011, Seakle Godschalk of ESS facilitated a half-day introductory workshop on sustainability reporting. The workshop was arranged by the Business Council for Sustainable Development Zimbabwe (BCSDZ).
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ACCA Partners with the ESS on Sustainability
The South African chapter of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) has entered into a working partnership with Environmental & Sustainability Solutions (ESS) in respect of training on Sustainability Reporting.
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Our August course dates.
Our dates for August have now been announced. We will be running our sustainability reporting course and performance indicator workshop at Diep-in-die-berg in Pretoria from 16 - 18 August.
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Material Flow Cost Accounting. The Draft International Standard (DIS) 14051 on Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) was recently approved by 98% of voting countries. Maryna Möhr-Swart and Seakle Godschalk represent South Africa on Work Group 8. Click here to read more.
Integration of EMA, MFCA and CP. Seakle Godschalk and Maryna Möhr-Swart presented a paper on an integrated approach for the implementation of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and Cleaner Production (CP) at the combined 13th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Accounting and the 22nd International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research held at St Andrews University, Scotland from 1-3 September 2010. Click here to read more.
2nd EMAN-Africa Conference on Sustainability Accounting in Emerging Economies. The 2nd conference of the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Africa will be hosted in cooperation with the University of Limpopo in Polokwane, South Africa from 28-30 September 2011. For more information click here.
Workshop on GRI Performance Indicators.
The GRI Certified Training Programme on Sustainability Reporting will be supplemented by a one-day workshop on GRI Performance Indicators. This workshop will be run back-to-back with the GRI Certified programme and can be attended in conjunction with the training programme (at a reduced fee) or separately. See our training page for more details. [Posted 30 June 2009]
EMAN-Europe Conference in Prague.
Seakle Godschalk recently attended the EMAN-Europe Conference on Environmental Accounting – Sustainable Development Indicators held in Prague on 23-24 April 2009. He presented a paper on Imperatives affecting the relationship between environmental and financial reporting by South African mining companies. A wide variety of topics related to environmental accounting were discussed. Full papers can be downloaded from this link. [Posted 30 June 2009]
GRI Certified Training into Africa.
ESS has presented the GRI Certified Training Programme on Sustainability Reporting to First Quantum Minerals, a copper mine group with operations in Zambia, the DRC and Mauritania, to staff members in Ndola, Zambia during July. In-house training programmes will also be run in November in Mauritania. [Posted 29 October 2009] |
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