Can Accounting ‘Help Build A Sustainable Economy?’
Initiating standards and enlisting an auditing body to oversee the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues or “nonfinancial information” as it’s commonly referred, similar to the standards used to oversee financial information is ‘fundamental’ in establishing a ‘Sustainable Economy’, suggests Robert G. Eccles, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and the…