The relationship between corporate social responsibility and accounting with the perspective of professional accountants

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which is applied in the whole world has become one of the most important concepts discussed on. CSR issue is the acceptance of responsibility for the business stakeholders and become a concept to ensure the to meet of these responsibilities to its stakeholders. For achieving the CSR activities of businesses, it is assumed that accounting is one of the important tools. In this study, we have tried to reveal the relationship between accounting and CSR. For this purpose, members of accounting profession in Akhisar were asked to evaluate their serving businesses and their accounting informations in terms of CSR. The data obtained in the survey were analyzed using the statistical package program. The study findings were evaluated than conclusions and recommendations were developed.