J. K. Pattanayak

Designing a course curriculum on environmental accounting: Viewpoint of Indian industry practitioners

Abstract Concern for the environment across the globe has increased substantially in the past few decades and significantly affected business organisations. This poses a challenge for Indian Business Schools to incorporate environmental perspectives in their course curriculum. The present study attempts to assess the perception of industry practitioners regarding the incorporation of environmental accounting in the curriculum of Indian management education and reports on a questionnaire survey of managers in Indias 100 largest companies. The results of this study suggest these respondents consider environmental accounting to be an emerging issue, requiring further development due to its perceived usefulness to their organisations. We conclude that there is support for environmental accounting to be incorporated into Indian management education programmes and offer some suggestions on the topics that are considered most relevant from our sample of Indian managers.