4.05.01 – Managerial, social and environmental accounting
Hans Jöbstl, Austria
About Unit
As outlined in the IUFRO Statutes, the main objective of this IUFRO Unit is to promote the international cooperation in forestry research related to forestry accounting. This is to be achieved by encouraging the exchange of ideas and the establishment of contacts and collaboration between researchers worldwide, and by promoting the circulation and application of research results.
The Unit was established at the 1995 World Congress and is to work on forestry accounting as a whole. This refers particularly to:
- the development of management-oriented accounting and reporting;
- finding ways of incorporating the growing stock and the non-market benefits into accounting – both on enterprise, regional and national level;
- improving social accounting.
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Historical Development – Issues of the Working Party
State of Knowledge
The following fields have been in the focus of the group's work: Integration of non-market benefits and changes in growing stock into income and operating statement, performance accounting, environmental accounting; forest assets (valuation), sustainability reporting, national/regional accounting and are reflected in the Unit's publications. In particular:
- JÖBSTL, H. (2005) Contributions to Forestry Accounting. – Reader, 95 pp. Internet
- KARISCH, G. (2003) Berücksichtigung des Waldvermögens im forstlichen Rechnungswesen. Analysis of the assets accounting history and development of a model for the evaluation of changes in forest assets. Universität für Bodenkultur, Vienna, 200 pp. ISBN 3 900962 45 6. Available from DRW-Verlag.
- JÖBSTL, H. (Ed. 2000) Waldvermögensbewertung – Forstliche Erfolgsrechnung / Forest Asset Valuation – Forestry Performance Accounting. Proceedings of the IUFRO-Workshop in Salzburg, 11 – 12 June 1999. Universität für Bodenkultur, Vienna, 178 pp. ISBN 3 900962 24 3. Available from DRW-Verlag.
- JÖBSTL, H. (2000) Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung in Forstbetrieben. (Cost and Performance Accounting in Forest Enterprises). A guideline for the forestry operating statement, costing and performance accounting with a basic introduction, 3rd, extended and entirely revised ed., Kommissionsverlag Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna, 212 pp. ISBN 3 7040 1328-5. Available from DRW-Verlag.
