A Review on How CPAs Should Be Involved in Environmental Auditing and Reporting for the Core Aim of It

From: Problems and Perspectives in Management | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: – Ã zbirecikli, Mehmet | Copyright information

Abstract

This study aims to review how CPAs should be involved in environmental auditing and reporting (EAR) for the core aim of it. The necessity of the theme came to fill up the lack of papers in international literature in order to underline the key moments and limiting factors of EAR applications by CPAs in managerial and legislative context of the developed and developing countries from the 1970s till the 2000s.

The study is organised under two main topics: 1) to investigat...

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