About ICSEARD

To house ideas to research international companies from the dimension of social and environmental performance and publish research activities on social and environmental accounting, a new institution named the International Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development (ICSEARD) has been set up since 2006 in the Faculty of Economics of Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia. One of the centre’s important objectives is to disseminate research and development in social and environmental accounting. There are some important activities in the centre: Research, Rating activities, Training, and Publication.

Research: The International Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development conducts research activities on topics such as Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate governance, and social and environmental accounting from a financial and management accounting perspective.

Rating: The International Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development (ICSEARD) also conducts assessments to evaluate the performance of Indonesian companies from a social and environmental perspective.

Training: The International Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development (ICSEARD) provides training services to companies and the public sector. These training activities include how to implement Corporate Social Responsibility and its impact on financial performance. Therefore, the new journal, which explores the practice and theory of social and environmental accounting from both financial and management accounting perspectives, should involve international scholars (from all over the world) with similar concerns.

Publication: One of the centre's activities is publishing an international journal named Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting (ISEA). Social and environmental issues in general, and accounting in specific, are not only local problems; they have affected countries all over the world (global commons). Therefore, the new journal, which explores the practice and theory of social and environmental accounting from both financial and management accounting perspectives, should involve international scholars (from all over the world) with the same concerns. The International Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development also publishes working papers on Social and Environmental Accounting and other topics on the website.