Chancen von Unternehmen mit einem integrierten Umweltcontrolling

Abstract

... What can companies achieve with environmental management accounting? ...

In order to answer the research question, first of all the role of the environmental costs caused by a company was explained. Since the identification of the environmental costs is the basis for an environmental management accounting. In accordance with that, the most important instruments of environmental management accounting were identified, as being relevant for the management accounting in a company. Following that, advantages as a result of an environmental management accounting were identified. Therefore the work focused on the competitive advantages achieved by a company through environ-mental management accounting. In summary, this bachelor thesis reveals the advantages of environmental management accounting, identified in the literature, and furthermore shows the implementation approaches as well as instruments of the environmental man-agement accounting.