The Results of a Survey of Australian Companies Listed on the ASX

question 42

Multiple Choice

The results of a survey of Australian companies listed on the ASX and the National Greenhouse Energy Reporting Register revealed that a reason for omitting sustainability costs in capital investment decision making was a belief that:

• A) sustainability costs were a corporate-wide issue and not specific to a project.
• B) sustainability costs were immaterial.
• C) it was unknown if sustainability costs would be incurred for the project.
• D) sustainability costs were part of the organisation's general overhead.

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