Environmental Accounting Expenses for Environmental Preservation and Reductions in Impacts

Details of the FY 1999 Environmental Accounting
Environmental costs for FY 1999 were calculated according to the rules below. Environmental costs from the Comparative Effectiveness Environmental Accounting table above use the figures from the expense category in the next table.

• Calculations are for Takara Shuzo only.
• Calculations are the total of costs created by environmental conservation activities by the staff of the environmental related sections at corporate headquarters and from staff working on environmental related areas at the branch offices.
• The categories are based on Environment Agency guidelines, with some recycle categories further detailed.
• For expenses and investments that were not 100% for the purpose of environmental conservation purposes, the appropriate percentage was used if known; if not, a percentage of 25%, 50% or 75% was assigned as appropriate.
• Investment was counting under "expenses". And it was handled through averaging over 10 years, including from FY1996.
• Personnel costs were calculated by multiplying the amount of time given to environmental activities by an average salary.
• Economic results were reported for only those items that could be clearly calculated with monetary values.

FY 1999 Environmental Accounts

Economic Effects of Environmental Conservation

Effects of Environmental Conservation