When reporting to your stakeholders, does your company want to add the following:
- Financial value - Reporting on non-financial and sustainability information illustrates both the readiness and progress of your organisation’s efforts to measure the long-term value to shareholders of your intangible assets. Transparent reporting in this area can also help your company benefit from lower cost of capital and risk premiums from financiers and insurers.
- Encouraging innovation and continuous improvement – Thought leadership, corporate learning and continuous business improvement may all be stimulated by sustainability reporting.
- Enhancing reputation – Reporting in this area can help to build your company’s reputation, both internally and externally.
- Transparency to stakeholders – Effective sustainability reporting enables your company to target relevant information at selected stakeholders, thus providing a solid basis for dialogue and engagement.
The very act of producing a sustainability report, comprising a range of non-financial information, is a benefit in itself, as it requires your organisation to adopt a systematic approach to sustainable development. Such reports encourage the development of rigorous and robust management systems addressing economic, environmental and social impacts and measurement of organisational performance in these areas.
Our approach is based on underlying principles contained within guidance such as the King Report 2002, the JSE Socially Responsible Investment Index criteria, industry best practice and the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines developed by the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI"). Our approach is continuously adapted to reflect emerging best practice and standards.
By bringing together specialists from different disciplines, including in the social and environmental fields, we can tailor our reporting advisory services to meet the requirements of individual clients.
We work with our clients to:
- Identify sustainable business drivers.
- Develop measurement and internal reporting frameworks for intangible value (including key performance indicators).
- Develop appropriate internal management systems and reporting processes.
- Benchmark against peers and/or best practice.
- Develop non-financial/sustainability reporting road-maps.
- Address and meet stakeholder information requirements.
- Develop and produce external non-financial and sustainability reporting.
