Social Audit Bibliography
Manuals and "How to do it" information
Social Accounting and Audit – the Manual and CD (new, revised edition), Social Audit Network; 2005
Social Audit and Accounting – Manual, CD and Workbook; CBS Network with Merseyside Social Enterprise Network; 2001
COMMENT NVQ Workbook: Unit 7 Evaluate and Develop own practice using the Social Audit Model; Crabtree, Reynolds & Pearce; CEU Ltd.; 1999
Local Livelihoods Social Audit Toolkit Freer Spreckley; Social Enterprise Partnership; 2008 DOWNLOAD
Social Audit- A Management Tool for Co-operative Working- 1981 Background to Social Audit and Social Enterprise and the development during the 1970s of workers' co-operatives and the beginning of the social enterprise sector. Freer Spreckley Published 1981 DOWNLOAD
Accountability 1000 (AA1000) framework: standard, guidelines and professional qualification: an exposure draft; ISEA; 1999
Assurance Standard AA1000; ISEA; 2003
Monitoring Ourselves, Anne Connor; Charities Evaluation Services; 1993
Developing Aims and Objectives; Whitting; Charities Evaluation Services; 1993
PQASSO (practical Quality Assurance Systems for Small Organisations); Charities Evaluation Services; 2 nd Edition 2002
Practical Monitoring and Evaluation – a guide for voluntary organisations; Charities Evaluation Services; 2002
Prove it! Measuring the effect of neighbourhood renewal on local people; New Economics Foundation; 2000
Communities Count: a step by step guide to community sustainability indicators; New Economics Foundation; 1998
Participation Works! 21 techniques of community participation for the 21 st century; NEF; 1998
The Money Trail: Measuring your impact on the local economy using LM3; New Economics Foundation; 2002
Social Return on Investment: Valuing what matters; New Economics Foundation; 2004
Environmental, Social and Sustainability reporting on the World Wide Web: a guide to best practice; ACCA; 2001
Key Social and Co-operative Performance Indicators: guidance document; Co-operatives UK; 2003
History and Theory
Measuring Social Wealth: a study of social audit practice for community and co-operative enterprises, John Pearce; 1996; NEF
Alternative Economic Indicators: Victor Anderson; Routledge; 1991
Redefining Wealth and Progress: New Ways to Measure Economic, Social and Environmental Change; the Caracas Report on Alternative Development Indicators; Bootstrap Press; 1990
The Just Enterprise: a blueprint for the responsible company; George Goyder; 1987 & 1993; Adamantine Press
Auditing the Market, Simon Zadek, Richard Evans; NEF/Traidcraft; 1993
Social Auditing for Voluntary Organisations, Mayo; NEF/Volprof; 1996
Building Corporate Accountability: Emerging practices in social and ethical accounting and reporting; Zadek, Pruzan, Evans; Earthscan; 1997
Accounting and Accountability: Changes and challenges in corporate, social and environmental reporting; Gray, Owen, Adams; Prentice Hall; 1996
The Stakeholder Corporation: A blueprint for maximising stakeholder value; Wheeler, Sillanpaa; Pitman; 1997
Making Values Count: Contemporary experience in Social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting; Gonella, Pilling, Zadek; ACCA; 1998
Corporate Spin – the troubled teenage years of social reporting; NEF; 2000
Charitable Trust: social auditing with voluntary organisations: Peter Raynard and Sara Murphy; ACEVO & NEF; 2000
Liverpool Social Audit Initiative: Report on the pilot programme 1996 - 98: Pearce; LCC CBED Unit; 1999
Social Enterprise in Anytown: John Pearce; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; 2003
A well-being manifesto for a flourishing society: New Economics Foundation; 2004
Journals and Circulars
AccountAbility: Quarterly journal of the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability.
Social and Environmental Accounting: Journal of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting and Research (CSEAR); University of St Andrews, Scotland
Social Audit Network (SAN) Monthly Circular: SAN