QUESTION
Social accounting is a way of measuring and reporting on an organisation's social and ethical performance. It is principally concerned with offering a complementary form of accounting as an alternative to the dominant economic and profit-orientated emphasis of companies
Required:
(a) Explain the meaning of social accounting
(b) Describe four main aims of social accounting
(c) Explain how society is seen to benefit from implementing a social approach to accounting
(d) What are the needs an organisation wants to satisfy through the process of social accounting?
(e) State three essential features of social accounting which distinguish it from traditional accounting