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Green Accounting in India


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Environmental accounting or green accounting is a new branch of accounting that aims at accounting for the Environment and its well-being. Although it is a completely new field/branch of study and practice; it’s soon gaining relevance because of its importance. In addition to merely checking a Company’s profit or loss or its revenue and expenses environmental or green accounting is a growing field that focuses or provides for accounting the environmental impact, certain factors may cause to a business or organization.

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Green Accounting, GDP, Environmental Accounting, Environmental Costs, GAAP, Environmental Audits.
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Mandeep Kaur
MERI, India

Abstract


Environmental accounting or green accounting is a new branch of accounting that aims at accounting for the Environment and its well-being. Although it is a completely new field/branch of study and practice; it’s soon gaining relevance because of its importance. In addition to merely checking a Company’s profit or loss or its revenue and expenses environmental or green accounting is a growing field that focuses or provides for accounting the environmental impact, certain factors may cause to a business or organization.

Keywords


Green Accounting, GDP, Environmental Accounting, Environmental Costs, GAAP, Environmental Audits.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25089/MERI%2F2018%2Fv11%2Fi2%2F173964