Social accounting is first and foremost accounting. Similar to traditional accounting, it is a method of quantifying a company’s performance. Only with social accounting, performance is used broadly to include social and environment effects.
Here are definitions from around the web:
SocialAccounting.org defines the term:
“Social Accounting is the process of measuring, monitoring, and reporting to stakeholders the social and environmental effects of an organization’s actions.”
“the process whereby the organisation collects, analyses and interprets descriptive, quantitative and qualitative information in order to produce an account of its performance.”
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), which provides tools for global enterprise governance for information technology defines it as:
“Social accounting aims to assess the impact of an organisation or company on people-both the internal and external participant environments.”
“the process of communicating the social and environmental effects of organizations’ economic actions to particular interest groups within society and to society at large.”
“Social accounting is a type of accounting that a business performs to place a value on the influence its operations have on society. It requires that enterprises look closely at all that it does and what kind of impact its activities have on people, places, and the environment….[it also] stems from the demand from governments and the public that businesses be more transparent concerning activities and the implications of those activities.”
Beyond Definition
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