A STUDY ON SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING, THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AWARENESS, BENEFITS AND PROBLEMS FACING BY VIETNAMESE COMPANIES

Abstract

The social and environmental issues and the impact of them on the decision making process have been increasingly given attention to the financial reporting. Over time there are many studies about Social and Environmental Accounting that have different views and arguments on the importance to the corporate report. In developed countries, the social and environmental accounting has joined the financial report and annual report; however it is still a new concept to Vietnamese enterprises. The objective of this study is to assess the understanding of Vietnamese people on the social and environmental concept, their implementation on companies in Hanoi. In order to collect data for the research, questionnaire survey will be used as a helpful method. The finding uncovers that although most people understand the importance of social and environmental activities and having corporate social responsibility reports, few of Vietnamese companies is able to quantify the cost and benefits of social and environmental activities as in the financial report.