Environmental Reporting and Management in Africa

Venancio Tauringana is Head of Department of Accounting and Professor of Accounting at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton. He is also President of the African Accounting Association; Editor, Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. Ven's research interests are in the areas of corporate governance environmental reporting. He is working with Uganda Manufacturing Association (UMA) to develop its member firms' sustainability reports in accordance with Global Sustainability Reporting Standards.

• INTRODUCTION 1. DOES CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING IMPROVE STOCK LIQUIDITY? EVIDENCE FROM KENYAN LISTED FIRMS; David Mutua Mathuva, Mumbi Maria Wachira and Geoffrey Ikavulu Injeni 2. THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING TO ANNUAL REPORTS USERS; Randolph Nsor-Ambala, Gabriel Sam Ahinful and Jeff Danquah Boakye  3. THE APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUES BY MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN KENYA; Mumbi Maria Wachira and David Wang'ombe 4. WATER-RELATED DISCLOSURES BY FOOD PRODUCER COMPANIES IN SOUTH AFRICA; Theresa Askham 5. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN GHANA; Gabriel Sam Ahinful and Venancio Tauringana 6. A REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING REGULATIONS IN NIGERIA; Olayinka Moses, Emmanuel Edache Michael and Joy Nankyer Dabel-Moses

This work presents six papers on environmental accounting and and management in Africa. International contributors in accounting, taxation, business administration, and management sciences present cases from Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. Some specific subjects examined are corporate environmental reporting, water-related disclosures by food producer companies, and the relevance of social and environmental accounting to users of annual reports. B&w charts and graphs are included. The book’s readership includes academics, practitioners, and policymakers. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.