What Is an Environmental Audit?

According to The Environment Agency in the United Kingdom (2006), Environmental Accounting can be defined as:

Environmental and organisational audits are used to discover a company’s position in their market and environment, and the company’s physical position.

Arizona Eye Institute (AEI) will scan for environmental changes, new events and trends in the marketplace. Hillestad and Berkowitz (2013) contend that external environment marketing strategies must be planned around major changes, events and trends by continuously developing an environmental scanning process. This environmental process will monitor and screen for local and macro trends that affect the organization 's strategy. The environmental assessment is a formal process used to predict the environmental outcomes (positive or negative) of an organization 's plan, policy, or projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. Organizations that assess the following environmental trends:

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Environmental monitoring - monitors the evolution of environmental trends, sequences of events and flows of activities.

After the general assessment on my patient when I was able to use SPICES tool, I had the opportunity to visit her apartment, to evaluate her environment, focusing on safety, fall prevention, and any supplementary help available. My patient is living by herself and she is independent in all activities of daily living. She is a widow and her kids are living far away from her and they are in touch with her almost every day via telephone. Her apartment is her universe and from time to time she is visited by relatives. Also, she has a neighbor, a retired nurse who is checking on her almost daily. She is trying to keep up with all housekeeping work, but her recent umbilical hernia surgery prevents her from keeping her house

• • • • • • • • Environmental analysis to determine the current status and position of a business in relation to its external environment and current activities Identify the critical success factors Define the product position & key messages Define the customer group Forecast sales Specify the business objectives Build an aligned activity plan Set metrics to monitor success of implementation

To begin refining the broad topic that is the environment, I began to research the different aspects of it through internet research. This internet research allowed me to refine my topic and gain a better understanding of the challenges which I may have had to overcome in my main extended research which included:

Aeropostale is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting 14 to 17 year-old young men and women through its Aeropostale stores and 7 to 12 year-old children through P.S. from Aeropostale stores (Aeropostale, 2012, para. 2). Aeropostale opened its doors in 1987, in the New York area. The specialty retailer had more than 110 stores in 1999 and has grown to more than 900 stores in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Aeropostale’s name dates back to the 1920s. The stores are named after Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, an airmail company, was the first to fly between France, South Africa, and South America.

Audit: Oxford dictionary says “an official inspection of an organization’s accounts. It is a systematic review of assessment of something.”

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This document summarizes the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), within the Canadian oil and gas industry, on both the Federal and Ontario Provincial levels. It factors in the necessary transportation, processes and infrastructure that will be be required for the implementation of the proposed investment.

if an organisation does not respond effectively to the external forces acting on it. it will fail regardless of how well the internal affairs are managed. ' 'farnham 2009 p.158 ' '

Environmental scanning refers to the acquisition and utilization of information regarding trends, and relationships in the external environment of an organization. Such information entails the knowledge that will help the management of the organization in planning the future of the organization. There are four modes of scanning that can be differentiated depending on the beliefs the organization has on environmental analyzability and also on the extent to which the organization intrudes into the environment with the aim of understanding it (Wheelen and Hunger, 2002).

Environmental – With regards to the environmental factors such as the air, noise, and water, inspections are implemented to ensure the company provides corrective actions within the stipulated time. The environmental inspection is part of the legal documentation and environmental authorities as the business operations are on-goings and maintains the competence.