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A IMPORTANCIA DA CONTABILIDADE AMBIENTAL NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES

2020; UNIVERSIDADE POTIGUAR; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21714/raunp.v12i1.1981

1984-4204

Veriane Fonseca Almeida, Alana Sales Brandão, Rafaela Riguetti Oliveira, Antônio Carlos Guidi,

Business and Management Studies

Currently, the preservation of the environment is no longer a management treated only by ecologists and has been presented as a social responsibility of every organized society.In this sense, the search for projects and activities that can reduce environmental impacts can be observed not only in potentially polluting activities, and this causes organizations in different sectors to use tools with the purpose of minimizing the negative impacts they may cause on the environment and society.This article aims to make a bibliographical review on the theme of environmental accounting.To do this, we sought concepts and applications, with which it was possible to identify what advantages it can bring to the company.As a methodology, the review of articles was carried out to better conceptualize the theme.According to the results obtained, it was noticed that environmental education and the great changes in the legislation, besides the competitiveness, caused many companies to start to worry about the environment, becoming ecologically correct and, thus, getting more "Friendly" in the eyes of the consuming public.Thus, in 1970, environmental accounting came into being, with the purpose of helping companies to not only focus on the price and quality of the product or service, but also to reduce costs, which made it even more possible to preserve the environment.