摘要：In the past two decades, concerns regarding environmental degradation, pollution, resource depletion, population growth, and destruction of wildlife and wilderness have become more widespread. Today, current accounting practices suffer from two fatal flaws when it comes to acknowledging the interdependence with resources. First, we cannot account for the full cost of production, including the costs of consuming essential natural resources because they often have no assigned monetary costs. Second, accounting rules penalize, rather than encourage, the environmentally responsible corporation. Accounting lacks a vehicle for recording "green assets " and monitoring their use. It may be argued that the accounting principles underlying GAAP are need some updating to bring them into line with current social option.
