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''Sustainability - environmental concerns.''
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(B Corp).
''Accounting - companies''.


B Corporations are profit seeking businesses that aim to meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.  
An account representing an amount of money ‘owed’ to the owner (shareholder) of the company.




The "B" in the name ''B Corporation'' stands for "Beneficial", meaning that these businesses aspire to benefit all.
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Certifications of B Corporation status are administered by B Lab.
More generally, any accumulated financial surplus.


The reserve may be earmarked for a particular purpose or expected future expenditure, but not necessarily so.


== See also ==
 
* [[B Corp Declaration of Interdependence]]
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* [[B Lab]]
 
* [[Benefit corporation]]
''Accounting''. 
* [[Business & Sustainable Development Commission]]
 
* [[Carbon footprint]]
Formerly, an alternative term for an accounting provision.
* [[Climate benchmark]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Corporation]]
* [[Environmental profit and loss]]
* [[ESG investment]]
* [[Forum for the Future]]
* [[Global Sustainable Investment Alliance]]
* [[Metaeconomics]]
* [[Moratorium]]
* [[Natural capital]]
* [[Organic]]
* [[Profit for purpose]]
* [[Reputational risk]]
* [[Return on Sustainability Investment]]
* [[Sistema B]]
* [[SRA]]
* [[SRI]]
* [[Stakeholder]]
* [[Sustainability reporting]]
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]]
* [[Sustainable finance]]
* [[Sustainability]]
* [[Sustainability bond]]
* [[Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles]]  (SLLP)
* [[Triple bottom line]]
* [[UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association]]




==External link==
== See also ==
[https://bcorporation.net/about-b-corps About B Corps]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Central bank money]]
* [[Conservative]]
* [[Dry powder]]
* [[Equity]]
* [[Interest on excess reserves]]
* [[Merger reserve]]
* [[Official reserves]]
* [[Provision]]
* [[Reserves]]
* [[Reserve requirements]]
* [[Reserves account]]
* [[Revaluation reserve]]
* [[Shareholder]]
* [[Special drawing rights]]
* [[Trapped cash]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]

Revision as of 09:11, 19 July 2019

1.

Accounting - companies.

An account representing an amount of money ‘owed’ to the owner (shareholder) of the company.


2.

More generally, any accumulated financial surplus.

The reserve may be earmarked for a particular purpose or expected future expenditure, but not necessarily so.


3.

Accounting.

Formerly, an alternative term for an accounting provision.


See also

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