Title: Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley
Author: C. Gregory Rogers
Year: 2005
Content
About the Author xvi 
Preface xvii 
Acknowledgments xxiii 
PART ONE : Introduction to Environmental Financial Reporting 1 
Chapter One: Financial Reports and the Financial Reporting Process 3  
Chapter Two: The Law and Accounting Sandwich 19 
Chapter Three: Environmental Laws 31 
Chapter Four: Environmental Financial Reporting: Overview 57 
Chapter Five: Financial Reporting Objectives 71 
PART TWO: Sarbanes-Oxley 83 
Chapter Six: Sarbanes-Oxley: Overview 85 
Chapter Seven: Certifications 91 
Chapter Eight: Internal Control 101 
Chapter Nine: Improper Influence on the Audit 121 
Chapter Ten: Off-Balance-Sheet Arrangements 127 
Chapter Eleven: Accelerated Reporting 131 
PART THREE: Financial Reporting Standards 139 
Chapter Twelve: General Principles of Financial Reporting 141
 Chapter Thirteen: Environmental Costs 169 
Chapter Fourteen: Environmental Assets 173 
Chapter Fifteen: Capitalized Environmental Costs 177
 Chapter Sixteen: Rights of Recovery 185 
Chapter Seventeen: Emission Credits 197 
Chapter Eighteen: Environmental Liabilities 203 
Chapter Nineteen: Environmental Loss Contingencies 211 
Chapter Twenty: Environmental Remediation Liabilities 231 
Chapter Twenty-one: Environmental Guarantees 249
 Chapter Twenty-two: Asset Retirement Obligations 259 
Chapter Twenty-three: Asset Impairments 281 
Chapter Twenty-four: Environmental Risks 293
 Chapter Twenty-five: Supplemental Reporting Standards 309 
PART FOUR: Audit Standards and Practices 319 
Chapter Twenty-six: Financial Statement Auditing 321 
Chapter Twenty-seven: Internal Control Auditing 347 
Appendix A: Authoritative Documents Pertaining to Environmental Financial Reporting 357 
Appendix B: Selected Bibliography 359 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 359 Shareholder and Stakeholder Advocacy 360 Voluntary Corporate Disclosure 361 Glossary 365 Index 373