In the past, environmental management mainly focussed on the identification of ecologically oriented requirements made on enterprises by relevant stakeholders, on the developmentof related corporate strategies and also on the introduction of a corporate system of environmental management....

Three step process: Each valuation process can - independent of its economic or ecological focus - be subdivided into three stages: The selection of the target object, the determination of the effects to be analyzed and, last but not least, the monetary or non-monetary valuation of these...

Until recently the fact has been neglected that the range of options in cost accounting undesirably affects the validity of results in cost-benchmarking. For this reason, this paper presents the concept necessary to standardise cost accounting for cost-benchmarking. A practical example will be...