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中小企业环境成本会计的实施_外文翻译,自从成立三十年以来,环境成本会计已经发展到一定阶段,环境会计成本体系已经从以环境成本评估为基础的会计制度核心中分离出来(参考fichter et al., 1997, letmathe 和 wagner , 2002)。   由于环境成本经常被评估为一般管理费用,传统观念的完全成本会计或者直接成本都没有为环境成本会计的...
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自从成立三十年以来,环境成本会计已经发展到一定阶段,环境会计成本体系已经从以环境成本评估为基础的会计制度核心中分离出来(参考Fichter et al., 1997, Letmathe 和 Wagner , 2002)。
   
由于环境成本经常被评估为一般管理费用,传统观念的完全成本会计或者直接成本都没有为环境成本会计的实施描述一个适当的基础。与传统会计发展类似,自从20世纪90年代以来,环境会计在概念和理论领域的重点放在了基于流程的会计中(参考Hallay和Pfriem,1992年,Fischer 和Blasius,1995年,德国环境部,1996年,Heller等人。1995 ,Letmathe,1998年,Spengler和H.hre,1998年)。
   
考虑到环境成本会计可行的概念,基于流程的观念似乎是制定环境成本会计的最好选择(参考Heupel 和 Wendisch,2002年)。但是这些概念必须确保能够在中小企业中正常运行。

基于Burritt等人提出的环境管理会计框架,我们对环境成本会计的概念着重于两个有关环境影响的主要群体。这是由环境引起的对环境系统的财务影响和与公司向关联的影响(参考Burritt和Schaltegger,2000年,第58页)。所有这些影响都和特定种类的金融和换环境信息相关。由环境引起的息对财务的影响有基于货币环境信息的影响和基于事物的环境信息影响。传统的会计体系可以处理双方面,包括以货币为单位的何以实物为单位的,但是却不注重环境对产生的影响。要得出一个在公司现行会计制度中实施环境成本会计的切实可行的方法,并能够处理货币和事务方面的混淆问题,需要一个能互相协调的综合的概念。由于实物信息往往是货币信息的基础(例如,1千克原料的消耗是对实物消耗多少货币的计量基础),这个信息到会计系统数据库的集成是至关重要的。在那里,物理环境信息和货币环境信息的产生在很多情况下是可行的。对于许多公司来说,在确定资源消耗和投资决策信息时,他们会优先使用货币环境信息。环境成本会计在小型和中型的企业中使用还比较少见,因此实际的例子在现有的文献中并不多见。有一个问题就是,中小企业的定义因国家而异(参考Kosmider,1993年和Reinemann,1999年)。我们列于表一中的工作标准是用来描述中小型企业的


Since its inception some 30 years ago, Environmental Cost Accounting (ECA) has reached a stage of development where individual ECA systems are separated from the core accounting system based an assessment of environmental costs with (see Fichter et al., 1997, Letmathe and Wagner , 2002).
   
As environmental costs are commonly assessed as overhead costs, neither the older concepts of full costs accounting nor the relatively recent one of direct costing appear to represent an appropriate basis for the implementation of ECA. Similar to developments in conventional accounting, the theoretical and conceptual sphere of ECA has focused on process-based accounting since the 1990s (see Hallay and Pfriem, 1992, Fischer and Blasius, 1995, BMU/UBA, 1996, Heller et al., 1995, Letmathe, 1998, Spengler and H.hre, 1998).
   
Taking available concepts of ECA into consideration, process-based concepts seem the best option regarding the establishment of ECA (see Heupel and Wendisch , 2002). These concepts, however, have to be continuously revised to ensure that they work well when applied in small and medium-sized companies.
   
Based on the framework for Environmental Management Accounting presented in Burritt et al. (2002), our concept of ECA focuses on two main groups of environmentally related impacts. These are environmentally induced financial effects and company-related effects on environmental systems (see Burritt and Schaltegger, 2000, p.58). Each of these impacts relate to specific categories of financial and environmental information. The environmentally induced financial effects are represented by monetary environmental information and the effects on environmental systems are represented by physical environmental information. Conventional accounting deals with both – monetary as well as physical units – but does not focus on environmental impact as such. To arrive at a practical solution to the implementation of ECA in a company’s existing accounting system, and to comply with the problem of distinguishing between monetary and physical aspects, an integrated concept is required. As physical information is often the basis for the monetary information (e.g. kilograms of a raw material are the basis for the monetary valuation of raw material consumption), the integration of this information into the accounting system database is essential. From there, the generation of physical environmental and monetary (environmental) information would in many cases be feasible. For many companies, the priority would be monetary (environmental) information for use in for instance decisions regarding resource consumptions and investments. The use of ECA in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is still relatively rare, so practical examples available in the literature are few and far between. One problem is that the definitions of SMEs vary between countries (see Kosmider, 1993 and Reinemann, 1999). In our work the criteria shown in Table 1 are used to describe small and medium-sized enterprises.