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Can Finance Managers Count CSR?

By Elaine_Cohen on November 11, 2009 3 Comments accounting, BeyondBusiness, case studies, CFO, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, CIMA, communications, corporate volunteering activities, cost center, CSR, Elaine Cohen, embedding CSR, Ethical Corporation, ethical investors, ethics, finance, finance function, finance managers, How to Embed Corporate Responsibility Across Different Parts of Your Company, human resources, human resources function, IBE, Institute of Business Ethics, integrated reporting, Logistics, Operations, procurement, resources consumption, Richard Ellis, travel, waste generation

The standand approach to finance is often the sad antithesis of corporate social responsibility. Most Finance managers have a perception of CSR as simply a cost center and not a revenue generator.Cohen provides an explanation of how there is a basis for the financial function to be a contributor to, and not just a calculator of a company’s CSR program.

33 Applications of a CSR Report

By Elaine_Cohen on September 2, 2009 Comments Off on 33 Applications of a CSR Report BeyondBusiness Ltd, carbon neutral, carbon offset, CSR, CSR communications, CSR Manager, CSR process, CSR reporting, Elaine Cohen, greenwash, marcom, stakeholders

They say the best way to beat your adversaries is to get to know them. CSR reports have many adversaries. In an attempt to get to know them, and understand how to better position the valuable process of CSR reporting, here is a list of useful applications of CSR reports which I imagine reporting adversaries could have generated.