CMA workshop on adopting EMA

A half-day workshop on 'Adopting Environmental Management Accounting (EMA)' was organised by the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (CMA) at the Distance Learning Centre in Colombo recently.

The workshop was inaugurated by CMA President Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala. The resource person of the workshop was Nuwan Gunarathne of Department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Nuwan is a committee member of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Asia Pacific (AP) and a representative of the Sri Lanka chapter of EMAN AP.

This workshop was organised as a follow- up to the launch of the EMA Guidelines for Sri Lankan Enterprises by CMA in June 2014, to understand the practical insights in adopting EMA.

Officials from service and manufacturing organisations took part in this interactive workshop. It gave an opportunity for peer to peer learning and sharing of best practices on EMA through group discussions.

The workshop covered areas such as environmental challenge, corporate greening, EMA, EMA development strategy and adoption. The highlights of the workshop were discussions on how various organisations respond to environmental challenges and the use of a holistic approach for environmental management facilitated through EMA.