Corporate carbon accounting: balance sheets and flow statements

Reichelstein, Stefan

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DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-024-09830-y
URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-0...
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-676169
Dokumenttyp:	Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:	Review of Accounting Studies
Band/Volume:	29
Heft/Issue:	3
Seitenbereich:	2125-2156
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Dordrecht [u.a.]
Verlag:	Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
ISSN:	1380-6653 , 1573-7136
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Stiftungsprofessur für ABWL (Reichelstein 2018-)
Bereits vorhandene Lizenz:	Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Fachgebiet:	330 Wirtschaft
Fachklassifikation:	JEL: M41 , M48 , Q53 , Q54,
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):	net-zero pledges , carbon emissions , carbon accounting , carbon reporting
Abstract:	Current corporate disclosures regarding carbon emissions lack generally accepted accounting rules. The transactional carbon accounting system described here takes the rules of historical cost accounting for operating assets as a template for generating carbon emissions (CE) statements comprising a balance sheet and a flow statement. The asset side of the CE balance sheet reports the carbon emissions embodied in operating assets. The liability side conveys the firm’s cumulative direct emissions into the atmosphere as well as the cumulative emissions embodied in goods acquired from suppliers less those sold to customers. Flow statements report the company’s annual corporate carbon footprint calculated as the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of goods sold during the current period. Taken together, balance sheets and flow statements generate key performance indicators of a company’s past, current, and future performance in the domain of carbon emissions.