Conceptual Foundations of Transforming the Traditional Accounting System into Sustainability Accounting

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Under modern conditions the significance of social and environmental security is manifested in costs of restoring and protecting the environment, ensuring social security at a decent level and requires reflecting these issues in accounting. The aim of the article is to identify and analyze the ways of transition from traditional accounting to sustainability accounting. In the article the following research methods are used: observation, comparison, the empirical method, the monographic method, induction and deduction, generalization. There analyzed differences in the coverage of all components of traditional accounting and sustainability accounting in terms of three dimensions: time, place and type of information generation. The ways of transition from the traditional system of accounting to sustainability accounting that require adjustment and expansion of the existing accounting system are substantiated. There suggested definitions of the main components of the accounting transformation, which are possible due to the introduction of internal and external sustainability accounting. A prospect for future research is formation of a general concept-methodology of sustainability accounting.

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