Corporate Social Reporting in a Financial Reporting System for Investors

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Glamorgan, language: English, abstract: This essay will give a short overview of the discussion about corporate social reporting (CSR), its implementation and the contradiction with traditional financial reports. First iIt will explain the role of traditional reporting and the reason for the increasing significance of CSR. The next part is about various Iideas and attempts how to implement CSR in practice will then be discussed with. In the last part, the essay shows the difficulties, advantages and disadvantages of CSR.