ACCOUNTINGFORSUSTAINABILITY:ASYNOPSISOFTHESIGNIFICANCEOF THEACCOUNTINGPROFESSIONANDSOCIALRESPONSIBLEINVESTMENTTO SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The aim of this report is to critically analyse accounting for sustainability in line with sustainable development, roles and view of accounting profession in providing standard for sustainability and finally to determine the financial performance flows within social responsible investment and its impacts on accounting for sustainability. Though different corporate organisations do have their own system of voluntary guidelines when reporting sustainability but the widely used so far is the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidance which so far have helps different sectors of the industry to be more transparent when accounting for corporate governance, social, economic and the environmental performance been the core of sustainability