Paul Ashcroft

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the environmental and economic damages caused by British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring and summer of 2010 and found that the damages to BP, the environment, and the US gulf coast economy are estimated to be $36.9 billion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the environmental and economic damages caused by British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring and summer of 2010, and concluded that the damages to BP, the environment, and the U.S. Gulf Coast economy are estimated to be $36.9 billion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative importance of various international accounting topics through a survey of members of the American Accounting Association's International Accounting Section and found that the international dimension is of great importance to the accounting profession.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether a firm's reported environmental information (environmental capital costs and environmental operating costs) actually reflects the firm's pollution and find that many firms were failing either to record or to fund necessary environmental expenditures, and therefore may have significant amounts of unrecorded future environmental obligations.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of actual environmental disclosure included in the annual reports of firms in the U.S. and Canada was evaluated based on environmental reporting guidelines published by the American Institute of Public Accountants and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.