Similarly, environmental accounting approaches can reduce expenditures for smaller firms. Green Ledgers cites the experience of Cascade Cabinet, a privately owned manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom cabinets in Washington state. Smart managers are rethinking this assumption and searching for ways to better manage environmental costs today and avoid them over the long run. Environmental accounting doesn't require a massive overhaul of existing systems. Rather, the editors demonstrate that this is a tool that can serve a variety of purposes.
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