LEARNING ABOUT SOCIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY - A wiki-Webquest

Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester, Soledad Moya-Gutiérrez, Diego Prior-Jiménez

2009

Abstract

This paper examines how new communication and collaboration technologies can influence university students learning process for the area of accounting and specifically for social accounting. Students should be able to know and understand that companies’ reports must provide not only financial but also social information as a necessary complement to the first. Analysts are taking into consideration social issues when valuing companies and corporate governance, human rights or environmental behaviours have become key factors for investment decisions. In a general way, social accounting may be defined as the framework which allows businesses to account for their impact on society. For the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability (1999), the terms social and ethical are taken together to refer to the organisational and behavioural systems within the organisation, and their direct and indirect impact on organisational activities with the stakeholders.

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Martí-Ballester C., Moya-Gutiérrez S. and Prior-Jiménez D. (2009). LEARNING ABOUT SOCIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY - A wiki-Webquest . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8111-82-1, pages 186-191. DOI: 10.5220/0001857301860191


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@conference{csedu09,
author={Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester and Soledad Moya-Gutiérrez and Diego Prior-Jiménez},
title={LEARNING ABOUT SOCIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY - A wiki-Webquest},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2009},
pages={186-191},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001857301860191},
isbn={978-989-8111-82-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - LEARNING ABOUT SOCIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY - A wiki-Webquest
SN - 978-989-8111-82-1
AU - Martí-Ballester C.
AU - Moya-Gutiérrez S.
AU - Prior-Jiménez D.
PY - 2009
SP - 186
EP - 191
DO - 10.5220/0001857301860191