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Date: 2024-12-10 Page is: DBtxt003.php L0700-TPB-c2003-Process-Changing-State-2
TPB thinking circa 2003
ACCOUNTING FOR PROCESS
PROGRESS is the increase in VALUE (of the STATE) from beginning to end of the period
Simply measure the change in the VALUE or everything
CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNTING IS VERY POWERFUL
Starting with the Profit and Loss Account
... and more so when combined with the Balance Sheets at the beginning and the end of the period
HOWEVER ... conventional financial accounts ONLY describe economic activity in financial or money terms while completely ignoring impact on everything else ... that is the 'externalities' ... that is the impacts on SOCIETY and the impacts on the ENVIRONMENT, the other dimensions of the complete SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
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APPLYING THE TVM FRAMEWORK
BUILDING ON HOW CONSOLIDATION ACCOUNTING WORKS
The next slide shows …

… how the money P&L report describes the impact of the money transactions on the money balance sheet of the operation …

… while the IMPACTS of the operations on society and the environment are ignored because they are outside the reporting envelope.
A better framework for reporting would be this …
So think of all this miniaturized:
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So think of all this miniaturized:
PROGRESS is the increase in VALUE (of the STATE) from beginning to end of the period
Simply measure the change in the VALUE of everything
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