The Global SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC System is a very complex system and a significant challenge to manage in an effective way. While there has been progress in improving quality of life for many people using the metrics of money, the system leaves many behind. Worse, a system that only has focus on money economics means that progress is achieved at the expense of some segments of society and at a huge cost to the environment , neither of which are part of the dominant money metrics framework. True Value Accounting brings people (society) and planet (environment) into the accounting and accountability in a way that is as rigorous for these elements as it is for money.
2. CONTEXT
This slideset is a Work-in-Progress
and will be updated from time to time.
It is part of a series that aims to
describe the extremely complex
socio-enviro-economic system that
we live in, and how better metrics will
make this system work better.
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4. Sustainable progress requires
decision making that optimizes for all
the segments of the system.
Metrics to optimize for company profit
performance and capital market value
ignoring externalities are not enough!
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17. HISTORY …
HOW THE THREE SEGMENTS HAVE
CHANGED OVER TIME
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18. YELLOW:
The PEOPLE piece … Human Capital (NC)
DIRTY BROWN:
The ECONOMIC piece … Man Built Capital (MBC)
GREEN:
NATURE, ENVIRONMENT … Natural Capital (NC)
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19. AT THE START THERE WERE FEW
PEOPLE, LITTLE MAN BUILT CAPITAL
AND PLENTY OF UNEXPLOITED
NATURAL CAPITAL
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31. To manage change there
have to be METRICS for
ALL the components of
the system.
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32. This is the background for
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a system for
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33. True Value Accounting
(TVA) accounts for impact
on ALL* the components
of the system …
* Not just the money based financial metrics
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34. Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic System
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
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35. Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic System
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Human
Capital
Split out Financial
Capital from other
components of
Man Built Capital
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36. Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic System
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
SunSun
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
Human
Capital
Add Sun … the
source of all energy
Split out Financial
Capital from other
components of
Man Built Capital
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37. Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic System
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
SunSunSun
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
Human
Capital
Add Sun … the
source of all energy
Split out Financial
Capital from other
components of
Man Built Capital
Reorder because
Financial Capital
metrics exist
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38. Sun
Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic SystemBOP
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
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EOP
BOP = Beginning of Period STATE
EOP = End of Period STATE
PROGRESS is Change in STATE during the period.
ALL the elements of the BOP and EOP
STATES need to be quantified
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39. Sun
Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic SystemBOP
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
EOP
Any number of activities may take place during a period.
They may be extremely complex and interconnected, but
PROGRESS is still measured by CHANGE in STATE.
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40. Sun
Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic SystemBOP
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
EOP
PERFORMANCE is measured by relating PROGRESS
achieved with the RESOURCES consumed.
How much is Human Capital increased and how much
are Financial, Man Built and Natural Capital diminished
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41. Sun
Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic SystemBOP
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
Financial Capital … virtual masquerading as reality.
Human Capital … PEOPLE … are complex, because we
originated through nature, but our inventions are simple.
Man Built Capital is so simplistic compared to Natural
Capital. While in some part amazing, it is very crude
compared to what is the norm in Natural Capital.
In the end it is Natural Capital that is going to determine
everything. NC is infinitely complex and resilient and will
outlast everything Man Built … and People are unlikely to
survive in a future mass extinction that is quite certain.
The source of ALL energy to drive the system
EOP
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42. TVA builds on double
entry and the concept of
state and flow …
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43. These 3 slides explain the concept of
STATE and FLOW …
or in accounting terms, the
BALANCE SHEET / PROFIT AND LOSS
relationship …
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47. These reflect …
● Steady state;
● Positive progress; and
● Deterioration of state
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48. No information about activities is needed in
order to measure PROGRESS
… only measures about changes in STATE
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49. State, Progress and Performance
● State is the Balance Sheet of the entity at a
moment in time;
● Progress is measured by comparing Balance
Sheet changes between the beginning and the
end of the period;
● Performance is a measurement that relates
Progress to the resources consumed.
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51. Sun
STATE
Beginning of Period
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
FLOWS*
ACTIVITIES*
PROCESSES*
* Any amount of complexity … STATE remains simple
SunSun
Financial
Capital
CHANGE
Human
Capital
CHANGE
Man Built
Capital
CHANGE
Natural
Capital
CHANGE
Sun
ACTIVITIES
During the Period
CHANGE
During the Period
STATE
End of Period
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52. Sun
Fundamentals of the Socio-Enviro-Economic SystemBOP
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
Financial Capital … virtual masquerading as reality.
Human Capital … PEOPLE … are complex, because we
originated through nature, but our inventions are simple.
Man Built Capital is so simplistic compared to Natural
Capital. While in some part amazing, it is very crude
compared to what is the norm in Natural Capital.
In the end it is Natural Capital that is going to determine
everything. NC is infinitely complex and resilient and will
outlast everything Man Built … and People are unlikely to
survive in a future mass extinction that is quite certain.
The source of ALL energy to drive the system
EOP
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53. A fundamental reality …
The origin of all FINANCIAL WEALTH
has been NATURAL CAPITAL facilitated
by a lot of human energy and man built
knowledge, structures and systems.
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54. ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM by SEGMENT
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Structures
& Systems
Natural
Capital
Sun
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Structures & Systems
Natural
Capital
Money FoodGovernmentNature (life)
Sun
Nature (life)
Capital Market
Value
Water
Laws. RulesNature (life)Land
Shelter
InfrastructureWater Clothes
IndustryNature (life)Air
Health
MiningEcoservices
Education
Energy Skills
Waste
RecreationRetail
Culture
Logistics Religion
Knowledge
Technology
Security
Energy
Mobility
Profit
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57. Managing in a complex
system is a challenge …
The best practice it to drive decision
making with the best / quickest data
about progress and performance and at
the most granular level … this is the
essence of the TVA data architecture.
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58. Measuring facilitates management, and
measurement is facilitated by using the
STATE ---> FLOW ---> STATE concept of
double entry accounting not only for
money and the organization, but for
everything of value and for impacts,
both good and bad, on everything.
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59. Sun
Complex system … competing agendas
Sun
BOP
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun SunSun
EOP
Financial
Capital
Human
Capital
Man Built
Capital
Natural
Capital
Sun
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60. REMINDER
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61. THANK YOU
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