Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting

Charl de Villiers is a professor of accounting, Graduate School of Management, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, where his research interests include sustainability accounting and integrated reporting. He is also a professor at the University of Pretoria, an adjunct professor at several other South African universities, and a research fellow at the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Charl has more than 250 research based publications and presentations, including over 60 articles in refereed journals, including in Accounting, Organisations and Society; Journal of Management; European Accounting Review; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting & Finance; and British Accounting Review. Charl is the editor-in-chief of Meditari Accountancy Research and serves on the editorial board of several other research journals.Warren Maroun is a professor at the School of Accountancy, University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests include: corporate reporting, integrated reporting, external audit and corporate governance with a specific focus on the functioning of mechanisms of accountability. Warren has published over 30 journal articles, including in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; Accounting Forum; and International Journal of Auditing. He has also produced technical and practitioner-focused reports for the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Warren holds a PhD from King’s College London.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting (Charl de Villiers and Warren Maroun); Chapter 2: Integrated Reporting (Charl de Villiers and Pei-Chi Kelly Hsiao); Chapter 3: Why Organizations Voluntarily Report – Legitimacy Theory (Warren Maroun); Chapter 4: Why Organizations Voluntarily Report – Institutional Theory and Institutional Work; (Muhammad Bilal Farooq and Warren Maroun) Chapter 5: Why Organizations Voluntarily Report – Agency Theory (Charl de Villers and Pei-Chi Kelly Hsiao); Chapter 6: Stakeholder Requirements for Reporting (Charl de Villiers); Chapter 7: Reporting After a Crisis; (Warren Maroun): Chapter 8: Determinants of Reporting (Warren Maroun); Chapter 9: Consequences of Reporting (Warren Maroun); Chapter 10: Public Sector and Not-For-Profit Reporting (Sumit Lodhia and Warren Maroun); Chapter 11: Management Control Support Systems to Support Sustainability and Integrated Reporting (Binh Bui and Charl de Villiers); Chapter 12: Assurance of Sustainability and Integrated Reports (Muhammad Bilal Farooq and Charl de Villiers); Chapter 13: The Future of Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting (Charl de Villiers and Warren Maroun)

'This excellent publication on sustainability accounting and integrated reporting has been edited by two senior academics in the field. The various chapters provide interesting insights into sustainability accounting and integrated reporting starting from voluntary external disclosure, stakeholder engagement, organizational focus and finally, assurance. The book testifies that the notion of integrated reporting and sustainability accounting is vibrant and offers various perspectives about and to organisations and society to manage and disclose valuable capital, other than just financial capital. This book is a valuable step for anyone who wishes to participate in dialogs about sustainability accounting and integrated reporting theoretically and practically. A must for scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers who are working in these areas.' - Professor James Guthrie, Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Department of Accounting & Corporate Governance, Macquarie University