There is plenty of research which argues that, overall, education leads to better outcomes for individuals and society. However, accounting for the specific social, economic and environmental outcomes from an investment in education remains a challenge, not only for governments, but also for any organisation which runs or invests in education programmes or initiatives. Without this information, it is difficult to make choices between different ways in which these outcomes can be achieved, and how best to design and deliver education activities.The objective of this paper is to review some of the available research and provide guidance on how it can be used.
Document Type: Article
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Quantifying the Impact of Investment in Education
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Social Value UK’s response to The Seven Principle Problems with SROI
This document outlines Social Value UK’s response to the paper ‘The Seven Principle Problems with SROI’ authored by Daniel Fujiwara at Simetrica in 2015.
Author: Social Value UK
Date: 11.18.2015
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Social Value Today: Current public and private thinking on Social Value
Social Value Today is a report written in Autumn 2015 about emergent thinking on Social Value, both in the public and private sectors.
Author: Professor Richard Tomlins
Date: 11.03.2015
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The Seven Principle Problems with SROI
This paper outlines seven challenges for SROI, taken from the academic research in fields such as philosophy and economics. It also provides some suggestions as to how to tackle some of these issues. -
Accounting and Inequality
A downloadable version of our blog ‘Accounting and Inequality’.
Author: SROI Network
Date: 03.25.2015
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Materiality Background Paper for Integrated Reporting
This Background Paper explores concepts of materiality for the purposes of developing an International Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework.
Author: AICPA
Date: 10.06.2014
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Are We Accounting For Value?
Inequality is increasing. Not only are the rich getting richer but more and more people are living on 1 or 2 dollars a day.
There is increasing evidence that widening inequality is expensive. Inequality costs, though of course the costs are not equally shared. And for many of us it seems pretty obvious that societies that say work hard and you can succeed are being pretty clear about what this means to those that don’t succeed. Books like the Spirit Level (inequality can make you ill) and Fooled by Randomness (some of us get rich by chance), explain the problems that many feel.
The Latest Accounting for Value document by Jeremy Nicholls. First published in the Charity Finance Yearbook 2013.
Author: Jeremy Nicholls
Date: 03.12.2013
