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Companies, as bound by the principle of social responsibility, need to consider not only the economic effects but also the social impacts of their actions. The accounting profession has gained more significance together with the advancements burgeoning in economic and technologic fields. Consequently, as a matter of the concept of social responsibility accounting, studies have been carried out for the purpose of evoking the environmental damages caused by firms, determining the impacts of such damages together with assessment, classification, monitoring and reporting of related costs incurred by these damages. Thanks to these studies, the concept of environmental accounting has come to the fore. This paper accentuates the concept of environmental accounting and environmental costs in order to ascertain the damages to the natural environment in globalizing world, both in micro and macro levels within the frame of social, cultural, and economic structures. In the application section, the environmental costs allocated by a company that operates in ceramic industry have been reviewed and the operational process during the accounting of these transactions has been studied.

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