This piece in the Globe and Mail was inter­esting: Shell was early with “sustain­ability reporting” (their first annual sustain­ability report was published in 1998). They currently have a goal to have their (self-reported) green­house gas emissions 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010, similar to the Kyoto Protocols. The story was about Shell’s CEO […]

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Dan Meyers of Tick Marks is caught up in the spirit of giving in his own way — he’s revis­iting his special 12 Blogs of Christmas from last year around this time and giving us all a refresher on the more memorable posts from the accounting blogos­phere from the year nearly ended. Since my blog […]

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The Publish What You Pay campaign is where inter­na­tional politics, financial reporting, and the devel­oping world intersect. The campaign seeks to force companies in extractive indus­tries (such as oil and gas) to make public their payments to govern­ments in the devel­oping world. It began in 1999 with an “exposé of the apparent complicity of the oil […]

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Enron burst into flames around January 2002. I was just starting my second semester at Brock University in the esteemed Bachelor of Accounting program when the Houston-based company went down. What did this mean to a 19-year-old Canadian accounting student with no share holdings and no knowledge of the energy trading giant from Texas? Actually, a […]

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