NCRF 14 – concentrações de atividades empresariais e os impactos da sua aplicação: estudo de caso no setor empresarial

Projeto apresentado obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Auditoria Orientada pela Professora Doutora Alcina Augusta Sena Dias

Responsabilidade ambiental: análise das divulgações ambientais das empresas do PSI-20 comparativamente com empresas não cotadas

Orientador: Mestre, António Pinto Marques

Sustainability reporting and financial reporting: the relevance of an integrated reporting approach

In the business world, there are issues such as globalisation, environmental awareness, and the rising expectations of public opinion which have a specific role in what is required from companies as providers of information to the market. This chapter refers to the current state of corporate reporting (financial reporting and sustainability reporting) and demonstrates the need for evolution to a more integrated method of reporting which meets the stakeholders’ needs. This research offers a reflection on how this development can be achieved, which notes the ongoing efforts by international organisations in implementing the diffusion and adoption, as well as looking at the characteristics which are needed for this type of reporting. It also makes the link between an actual case of a company that is one of the world references in sustainable development and integrated reporting. Whether or not the integrated reporting is the natural evolution of the history of financial and sustainability reporting, it still cannot yet claim to be infallible. However, it may definitely be concluded that a new approach is necessary to meet the needs which are continuously developing for a network of stakeholders.

Real-time tracking and reporting of dynamic events in hierarchical wireless sensor networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are highly distributed systems in which resource allocation (bandwidth, memory) must be performed efficiently to provide a minimum acceptable Quality of Service (QoS) to the regions where critical events occur. In fact, if resources are statically assigned independently from the location and instant of the events, these resources will definitely be misused. In other words, it is more efficient to dynamically grant more resources to sensor nodes affected by critical events, thus providing better network resource management and reducing endto- end delays of event notification and tracking. In this paper, we discuss the use of a WSN management architecture based on the active network management paradigm to provide the real-time tracking and reporting of dynamic events while ensuring efficient resource utilization. The active network management paradigm allows packets to transport not only data, but also program scripts that will be executed in the nodes to dynamically modify the operation of the network. This presumes the use of a runtime execution environment (middleware) in each node to interpret the script. We consider hierarchical (e.g. cluster-tree, two-tiered architecture) WSN topologies since they have been used to improve the timing performance of WSNs as they support deterministic medium access control protocols.

Aplicação de ferramentas Kaizen na realização de auditorias internas e reporting do sistema de gestão integrado da Avelada

Na atual conjuntura económica, torna-­‐se fundamental uma reflexão profunda das organizações sobre a forma como podem maximizar o seu retorno nos investimentos (ROI-­‐Return On Investment), aumentar a sua competitividade nos diversos mercados, procurando atingir uma cultura de excelência operacional. A necessidade de uma maior eficiência na utilização dos seus recursos levou a Aveleda, líder de mercado do Vinho Verde, a desenvolver no final de 2011, um projeto de melhoria contínua com o Kaizen Institute, com o objetivo de melhoria da produtividade, eficiência interna, rentabilidade e redução do desperdício. A Aveleda, é uma empresa com um ,Sistema de Gestão Integrado (SGI) certificado de acordo com vários referenciais como a Qualidade, Segurança Alimentar, Ambiente e Energia. Este trabalho, apresenta a implementação de ferramentas Kaizen e a sua integração no processo de Auditorias Internas e reporting nos diferentes âmbitos do SGI. As ferramentas associadas ao desenvolvimento de Checklists, permitiram a criação de um sistema de monitorização e reporting do desempenho dos vários processos e atividades, com melhoria significativa na gestão dos desvios e eficácia nas ações tomadas contribuindo para um maior alinhamento e motivação das várias equipas na identificação de melhorias.