existence or may exist of a different environmental quality.
First Advanced Second, there are Third, while advanced
environmental costs regulated and voluntary costs and operating costs are prior to the operation of the incurred in the process, system or They can be hidden by management process, system, or installation. operational installation accounting practices, the back-end environmental costs can directly not be entered into the accounting systems. managers and analysts responsible for day-to-day operations and business decisions. The magnitude of these costs Qualified inputs, in turn can be difficult to determine. Back-end environmental This may include evaluation of alternative costs may not be directly settlement related costs, equipment for pollution entered into accounting control, systems.