Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks is a complete guide to developing the underlying business systems to successfully report environmental matters in audited financial statements and reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). It sets forth relevant reporting and internal control standards and discusses important issues affecting reporting entities, accountants, lawyers, and environmental professionals.
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C. Gregory Rogers, J.D., CPA, is a practicing environmental lawyer and management consultant in Dallas, Texas. He is “of counsel” with Guida, Slavich & Flores, a law firm focusing on environmental legal matters, where he advises public and non-public companies on the purchase, sale, financing, and redevelopment of contaminated real estate. He is also President of C.G. Rogers & Co, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in environmental financial reporting and related business strategies.
Mr. Rogers is a non-practicing CPA and former financial auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co. He began his legal career with two national law firms in Washington, D.C. and Dallas as a corporate securities lawyer, where he became versed in the U.S. federal securities laws and SEC regulations. After gaining experience in environmental law, he left legal practice for several years to work with General Motors Corp. and other clients on the reengineering of various environmental and financial business processes.
Following the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Mr. Rogers drew upon his background in accounting, law, and consulting to analyze the environmental-related accounting, legal, and management implications of that far-reaching legislation. He has since written numerous articles on various aspects of environmental financial reporting that have appeared in publications sponsored by the National Association of Corporate Directors, the American Bar Association, Financial Executives International, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, and the National Brownfields Association. Mr. Rogers is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Environmental Disclosures and was one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004).
Mr. Rogers earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and law review editor. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Rogers is a non-practicing CPA and former financial auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co. He began his legal career with two national law firms in Washington, D.C. and Dallas as a corporate securities lawyer, where he became versed in the U.S. federal securities laws and SEC regulations. After gaining experience in environmental law, he left legal practice for several years to work with General Motors Corp. and other clients on the reengineering of various environmental and financial business processes.
Following the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Mr. Rogers drew upon his background in accounting, law, and consulting to analyze the environmental-related accounting, legal, and management implications of that far-reaching legislation. He has since written numerous articles on various aspects of environmental financial reporting that have appeared in publications sponsored by the National Association of Corporate Directors, the American Bar Association, Financial Executives International, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, and the National Brownfields Association. Mr. Rogers is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Environmental Disclosures and was one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004).
Mr. Rogers earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and law review editor. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma.
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Top Notch,
This review is from: Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Hardcover)
Finally, someone got it right. This might be the most important book written about environmental management in years.
New accounting standards will feed environmental management into the teeth of Sarbanes-Oxley. Readers get all the information they need in a format that is accessible to a wide variety of professional disciplines.
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Learn quickly about this very complex topic,
This review is from: Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Hardcover)
This books pulls together brilliantly the complexities of the multi-disciplinary challenges of reporting environmental liabilities after Sarbanes-Oxley and FIN 47.
All other books and papers I read are focused on one angle of the topic, looking at environmental liabilities in just one dimension. This book saves hours of study and research, all work is done for the reader. Quick read, logically structured.
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This review is from: Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Hardcover)
Before I read Greg Rogers book, I thought accountants were mere number crunchers and that the lion's share of the crunching would eventually be performed by a sophisticated software package-- or at least people in India. The happy truth (for accountants, anyway,) is that accounting is an inherently SUBJECTIVE (and, therefore, not highly-outsourcable discipline.) A less happy (and somewhat scary) truth is that I actually found Rogers' treatment of accounting fascinating. Yes, it may be that I need to get a life, but this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to excel in the environmental industry.
As a testament to the readability of the book, I will share a short anecdote. In preparation for a presentation that I was to give at a large accounting firm in New Jersey on behalf of my environmental consulting company(Hydrotechnology Consultants, Inc.), I asked my assistant to order Rogers' book on Amazon. She unwittingly requested shipping via media mail (a.k.a. snail mail.) As the date for the seminar approached, she assured me that the book was scheduled to arrive "any day." It was two days before the seminar and the book had apparently taken a detour to media mail hell. I told her that she needed to secure the book for me by the next day or invest in a warm hat and a pair of gloves-- because it tends to get rather cold in the unemployment line. In desperation, she called Greg Rogers and begged him to ship the book overnight. Greg took pity on her plight and shipped the book for morning delivery-- leaving me exactly one day to read the book, digest its contents and regurgitate it to an audience of accountants. To make a long story short, the presentation went off without a hitch. The accountants were highly impressed with my knowledge of environmental accounting, but seemed somewhat uncomfortable with my level of enthusiasm. Therefore, I offer this advice to Greg Rogers: place a label on the book cover which reads, "Caution: Contents May Shock and Awe!"
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Environmental financial reporting deals with accounting for and reporting on environmental transactions, conditions, and events that affect, or are reasonably likely to affect, the financial position of an enterprise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
environmental financial information, environmental financial reporting, environmental exit costs, environmental loss exposures, potential settlement dates, asset retirement obligations, expected present value technique, retroactive insurance contracts, independent financial auditor, environmental remediation liabilities, asset retirement costs, noncontingent component, usual general meaning, regarding accounting principles, environmental indemnity agreements, liabilities for environmental matters, critical accounting estimates, intangible asset class, material environmental liabilities, environmental guarantees, nonfinancial statement disclosures, internal control system design, pollution conditions, obligating event, identifies certain process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Exchange Act, United States, Securities Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Supreme Court, Disclosure of Accounting Policies, Emerging Issues Task Force, The Rose Foundation, Description of Business, Henry Lee, Kyoto Protocol, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Elements of Financial Statements, Environmental Site Assessment Process, New Item, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, President Bush, Statements of Financial Accounting Standards New!
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Environmental financial reporting deals with accounting for and reporting on environmental transactions, conditions, and events that affect, or are reasonably likely to affect, the financial position of an enterprise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
environmental financial information, environmental financial reporting, environmental exit costs, environmental loss exposures, potential settlement dates, asset retirement obligations, expected present value technique, retroactive insurance contracts, independent financial auditor, environmental remediation liabilities, asset retirement costs, noncontingent component, usual general meaning, regarding accounting principles, environmental indemnity agreements, liabilities for environmental matters, critical accounting estimates, intangible asset class, material environmental liabilities, environmental guarantees, nonfinancial statement disclosures, internal control system design, pollution conditions, obligating event, identifies certain process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Exchange Act, United States, Securities Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Supreme Court, Disclosure of Accounting Policies, Emerging Issues Task Force, The Rose Foundation, Description of Business, Henry Lee, Kyoto Protocol, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Elements of Financial Statements, Environmental Site Assessment Process, New Item, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, President Bush, Statements of Financial Accounting Standards New!
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- Financial Accounting (Ab - Accounting Principles Series) by Robert G. May on page 144, and page 146
- Pollution Control (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 56, and page 64
- Sustainability Strategies for Industry: The Future Of Corporate Practice (The Greening of Industry Network Series) by Nigel Roome in Back Matter
- Getting Started: " Runner's World " Best by Runner's World in Back Matter
- Stumbling Toward Sustainability by John Dernbach in Back Matter
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