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Mapping Carbon-Financial Risk Exposure in the FTSE

The 2014 “Carbon footprint” report ”Mapping Carobn-Financial Risk Exposure in the FTSE” follows on from the previous report ’Accounting for carbon risk in the FTSE 100 Reinforcing disclosure’ which account for carbon emissions in the FTSE100 and suggest alternative and innovative carbon-material stakeholder disclosure practices. In this new report we are concerned with mapping carbon

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Accounting for business models

The academc paper ”Accounting for Business Models: Increasing the Visability of Stakeholders” conceptualises a firm’s business model employing stakeholder theory as a central organising element to help inform the purpose and objective(s) of business model financial reporting and disclosure. The paper published in Journal of Business Models has been written together with professor Colin Haslam, Dr

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Carbon Asset Risk: Discussion Framework

RVA Consulting and Queen Mary University of London risk metrics Project was quoted in the WRI and UNEP-FI report Carbon Asset Risk: Discussion Framework (2015 p 55).

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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS): A new business model in the FTSE100

This paper is about the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) business model. REITs benefit from tax concessions and Fair Value Accounting (FVA) practices as. REITs distributing over 90 percent of profits can obtain tax concessions for their shareholders. This encourages profit distribution at the expense of accumulating retained earnings in shareholder equity. The financial viability of

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