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2 unusual facts about Accounting reform


Accounting reform

Robert Costanza, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and others who advocate a consistent global system for valuing natural capital, note that failures in this area are particularly grim: promoting extinction, loss of biodiversity, climate change and destructive weather for the sake of such "growth".

Marilyn Waring, who deeply criticized the UN account system for systematically under-valuing the social and economic contributions of women, stated also that she had to read literally an entire room full of books in order even to understand the standards applied today.



see also

Sarbanes

Sarbanes–Oxley Act, a United States federal law on accounting reform sponsored by Paul Sarbanes and Michael G. Oxley