Corporate social responsibility reporting by the National Forest Holding „State Forests”

• Main Author: Ewa Śnieżek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rada Naukowa SKwP 2016-09-01
• Series: Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości
• Subjects: społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu; raportowanie społecznej odpowiedzialności; zrównoważony rozwój; rachunkowość społecznej odpowiedzialności; społeczna odpowiedzialność Lasów Państwowych; corporate social responsibility
• Online Access: http://ztr.skwp.pl/gicid/01.3001.0009.2887

Today, the company, in addition to meeting its economic goals, should be involved in the implementation of the concept of corporate social responsibility. State Forests is not an exception in this respect, on the contrary – its existence, by definition, has dictated inscribing in the mission, vision and strategy of this company a responsibility to society, both to present and future generations. To date, State Forests has not developed a uniform framework for reporting socially responsible activities. Despite the many scattered documents indicating their contribution in this regard, State Forests has not included in its report a set of information on these issues. The aim of the article is to point out that social responsibility in such an entity as State Forests National Forest Holding is an extremely important area having long-term conse-quences for the contemporary and future generations. The article demonstrates the need for corporate social responsibility accounting and proposes a general structure of a report on social responsibility of State Forests for the current and future stakeholders. As a primary method of research, in addition to literature studies, the deductive method was used, assisted with reasoning by analogy.