Linking environmental accounting to reward systems: the case of the Environmental Profit and Loss Account

In so doing, the paper contributes to fill a gap in the state of the art literature that so far has given limited attention to the problem of linking environmental accounting instruments to corporate reward systems. Based on the case analysis, the paper concludes with some guidelines concerning the key aspects that should be taken into consideration for this prospect use: alignment with the company's strategy, definition of quantitative and common objectives, integration with other human resource practices, and possible connection to monetary rewards. Then, for each aspect, the paper discusses the rise of potential trade-offs between completeness and controllability of the included items, environmental and economic performance, cost and precision of the system itself.