Provide arguments as to likely consequences of companies

Question

Environmental Performance: Meeting Stakeholder Expectations How important to stakeholders is environmental performance (e.g., management of greenhouse gas emissions) of publicly listed companies? This issue is addressed in the following short piece: D. C. Esty, "What Stakeholders Demand," Harvard Business Review (October 2007), pp. 30, 34, which can be accessed as back- ground reading for the following set of questions.

Required

1. What are the primary stakeholders that would be interested in corporate disclosures regarding environmental performance?

2. Go to the following Web site (www.climatecounts.org/scorecard_overview.php) and obtain information regarding the "scorecard" that this organization has developed to rate environmental performance. What are the 22 criteria used by Climate Counts to rate corporate environmental performance?

3. In the electronics industry group, what distinguishes the environmental performance of IBM versus Apple Computer according to the scorecard used by Climate Counts?

4. Provide arguments as to likely consequences of companies that fail to meet stakeholder expectations regarding environmental performance.

5. What strategic role can the management accountant assume as regards corporate environmental performance?

Answer 1

To complete the task, you have to review the chapter named - Environmental Performance: Meeting Stakeholder Expectations. This issue is addressed in the given short piece: D. C. Esty, ‘What Stakeholders Demand’, Harvard Business Review (October 2007). On behalf of the above; respond to following. Q1. Write down the main stakeholders who would be interested in the corporate disclosures concerning ecological performance? Q2. Go to the given website (www.climatecounts.org/scorecard_overview.php) and get information concerning the ‘scorecard’ which this organization has build up to rate ecological performance. Write the 22 criteria employed by Climate Counts to rate corporate ecological performance? Q3. In electronics industry group, what differentiates the ecological performance of IBM versus Apple Computer according to the scorecard employed by Climate Counts? Q4. Give arguments as to likely effects of companies which fail to meet up stakeholder expectations.