Impact and sustainability expertise for accountancy firms

What you get

• The content side of sustainability reporting

  Double materiality, ESRS datapoints, VSME, theory of change and impact indicators: the subject knowledge your clients need for a sound report.

• Assurance-ready clients

  We help clients get their impact data, sources and processes in order, so your limited assurance engagement under ISAE 3000 or Standaard 3810N runs more smoothly.

Why we do what we do

Read the film as text

1. We all want to know
2. our place in the world.
3. Thin grey lines join dots into a web.
4. We like to believe that what we do is part of something larger.
5. It is.
6. Together we make our surroundings, our brands, our communities.
7. We shape the work of others, as they shape ours.
8. The web grows dense.
9. We live in one web of cause and consequence.
10. Each path tells a story, part of a larger narrative.
11. A system of meaning.
12. So what is our impact?
13. Whose lives do we touch?
14. What changed? For whom? How much? And what part was ours?
15. Intended or not, for better or worse.
16. Knowing that changes what you do next.
17. A dark line draws a path through the web. Impact management helps you see it, steer it, and use it.
18. A large word: Lead. A purple path runs through the web. Lead with purpose, and fund your mission.
19. A large word: Improve. A green path runs through the web. Learn what doesn’t work and design for better.
20. A large word: Engage. A blue-green path runs through the web. Share your story, and bring others into it.
21. A large word: Account. A blue path runs through the web. State your claim, and prove it.
22. A large word: Discover. A yellow path runs through the web. Find your next impact before it happens.
23. “How do you measure impact?”
24. It sounds hard.
25. It isn’t.
26. It’s not about the how.
27. It’s about
28. Portraits of people fill the screen.
29. A large word: Who.
30. About rights-holders, whose lives are touched.
31. And stakeholders, whose choices shape them.
32. The people stand side by side, at the same height. A wave of colour runs through the web. Every voice, every perspective, equally weighed.
33. The web turns many colours. Pluriform and equivalent.
34. Who determines what.
35. And what determines how.
36. That’s it. No more, no less.
37. We count what can be counted, and listen to the rest.
38. Coloured paths wind across the web. We find the stories that connect the dots, and make sense of the whole.
39. We love our craft:
40. to ask the questions,
41. to measure what matters,
42. and narrate what works.
43. One dark path remains. Let’s reveal your path.
44. The word narrate, with the line: impact in numbers and stories.

What we often hear

• “We have little in-house knowledge of impact and ESG.”

  We train your advisers and auditors on impact methods and co-deliver early engagements, so you build capability step by step.

• “Our clients aren’t ready for assurance on their sustainability report yet.”

  With the EU Omnibus narrowing CSRD scope, some clients will report under ESRS and others voluntarily, for example with VSME. Either way, we help them with their materiality analysis, data definitions and audit trail, so there is something to assure.

• “I have to keep advice and assurance strictly apart.”

  We can support the client’s preparation as an independent party, so you protect your independence as auditor.

• “Clients’ impact data is hard to verify. The sources can’t be traced.”

  We help clients choose indicators with clear definitions and traceable sources, so data quality improves before it reaches your desk.

What you may be wondering

• Won’t my independence be at risk?

  No. We work with your client as a separate party. The assurance stays with you.

• Can impact data really be audited?

  Not always. That is why we help clients choose indicators with clear definitions and traceable sources.

• Is the CSRD still relevant after the EU simplification?

  For fewer clients, because its scope is much smaller. Voluntary reporting with VSME and questions from customers remain.

To read

• Do the standards finally speak one language?

  The ISSB, the ESRS, GRI, the VSME and the new B Corp requirements are growing towards one another. What that harmonisation is, which principles it rests on, and what it still leaves open.