Essays on GRI

Initial post: People, Planet and Profit Insight- discussion board initial post to questions

Introduction Sustainability report accounts for the non-financial information concerning a company and its operations. Sustainability reporting is a way that companies can disclose their sustainability initiatives to investors, the public, workers and all other stakeholders. The reports also help the company assess their operation impact on government, the environment and the community in general.

An informed investor is a good investor. Investors are becoming more aware of the need to seek as much extra information on a company as possible before investing in it. Sustainability information is becoming more relevant to stock prices. A company that runs environmentally and socially aware operations ...

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Introduction. Financial management is vital for organizations of any type, size and ownership form. This paper discusses the key areas for an organization financial function and analyzes financial controls to be implemented to ensure sound financial management. Financial function of the organization. ICAEW (2011) defines financial management as a responsibility for core process activities - accounting, financial information processing, tax management, financial controls and treasury, performance of which contributes to organizational success and meeting short- and long term organization objectives. COSO (2013) distinguishes between three categories of objectives each of which is relevant for all specific finance function and ...

In this study, we collected data related to the four organizations, which are MOI, Etihad Airways, AECOM and ADEC. To examine the business sustainability in the organizations, we retrieve quantitative data from a total 40 questionnaires done in the four companies. Our questionnaires address macro level of issues on economic efficiency, social equity and environment accountability which are used in measuring the business sustainability performances.

Questionnaire questions

In addition to the three main aspects (i.e. social responsibility, environmental performance and economic performance), we further derive five other aspects (i.e. management practices, risk management, customer management, supplier management and operational performance) from these ...

1- "How to become a benefit corporation"

The effect of B corps may be minimal in its effect of reshaping American companies. Although the companies enjoy certain advantages from having this set-up, it can analyzed in relation to several companies producing larger revenues that were not considering this option. The main point of the author suggests that the efforts of converting business into B Corporation have been minimal that I personally have to agree with.

3- "What is GRI?"

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) aims to promote sustainable reporting in every organization by setting standards and while maintain sustainable development. In a related aspect, there are companies that comply with GRI due ...

Business Sustainability

PART A:

The report starts with the message from the CEO. The contribution of the company to the society has been measured. The approach of the company, its governance, product stewardship and the measures of safety, Health and Environment has been discussed. The role of the company to the people and the community along with the Global Reporting initiatives has also been shown. The appearance of the report is attractive and required information can be extracted easily from this report.

Structure

The Sustainability report covers all the areas very elaborately. The achievements of the organization have been reported in the ...

ANSWER # 1: GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE (GRI)

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a non-profit organization which is established to provide guidelines to the businesses to develop business conduct integrating sustainability as key measure. GRI requires businesses to integrate social and environmental justice and care in business core objectives along with profitability as primary objective. GRI is world’s first organization that requires business to develop business model that adheres to the principle of social, economic, and environmental sustainability as designed by global network of sustainability experts. For this purpose, GRI has developed guidelines requiring businesses to provide organization’s strategy and analysis, with management approach towards setting ...

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Reporting to Stakeholders

There have been a lot of arguments on reporting to stakeholders by different scholars. There have emerged two schools of thought. The first school is the shareholder concept in corporate responsibility advocating for managers to concentrate on the maximising shareholder value. The second school of thought advocates for managers to concentrate on various stakeholders that affect and are affected by the company. I will discuss why the company should use the stakeholder model of reporting.

Thesis Statement: Reporting to stakeholders is the superior and sustainable concept that the company should practice.

The stakeholder approach has been contested by many scholars. They argue that the only stakeholder the management should consider is the shareholder. When the management ...