Business entities operating in the world are now subject to a growing number of environmental laws and regulations. These entities may be responsible for significant cleanup costs and liabilities, and also be liable for personal injury claims from emp...
Business entities operating in the world are now subject to a growing number of environmental laws and regulations. These entities may be responsible for significant cleanup costs and liabilities, and also be liable for personal injury claims from employees and customers of there are toxic problems in the workplace or associated with their products. There are many issues of environmental matters such as estimating cleanup costs, disclosures for asserted and unasserted contingencies, and auditing and reporting on the liabilities and contingencies resulting from violations of these laws and regulations. In order to determine the proper treatment of these matters in reporting to users of financial statements, previous related studies are reviewed. The statements of Emerging Issues Task Forces of FASB, Financial Reporting Release No. 36 of SEC and Audit Risk Alert and others of AICPA are useful and valuable.