Reference no: EM132373866 , Length: word count:2000
Financial Accounting Assignment -
In a folder called "Assignment Papers and Rio Tinto Report" on Moodle, you will find 9 papers that address various aspects of sustainability and environmental reporting. Rio Tino's 2017 sustainability development report is also uploaded in this folder.
Required (word limit 2000 words)
1. Critically review any six of the nine papers;
2. Critically discuss the 2017 Rio Tinto sustainable development report.
Please note:
- A critical review requires you to summarise and evaluate each paper.
- To be critical does not mean to criticise in a negative way. It requires you to question the given information and view put forth by the author(s). It requires you to evaluate the issues raised in a paper.
- Evaluation means presenting the strengths and weaknesses of a paper.
- Overall, writing a critical review involves analysis and evaluation.
References -
Chapter 30 - Accounting for corporate social responsibility
Craig Deegan, (2016)
Note - In this assignment, you have to consider these six articles and write a critical review of 2000 words according to the requirements.
Articles -
1. Corporate governance and environmental reporting: an Australian study by Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Carol A. Tilt and Laurence H. Lester.
2. Corporate Social Responsibilities: Alternative Perspectives About the Need to Legislate by Craig Deegan and Marita Shelly.
3. Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining by S. Northey, N. Haque and G. Mudd.
4. Environmental incidents in a developing country and corporate environmental disclosures A study of a multinational gas company by Muhammad Azizul Islam and Muhammad Aminul Islam.
5. Corporate social responsibility and the parameters of dialogue with vulnerable others by Robyn Mayes, Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald.
6. Environmentally sustainable mining: The case of tailings storage facilities by Erica Schoenberger.