Sustainability Reporting Readiness
A disclosure assembled in the week before a deadline rarely survives an assurance review. We build the dataset, controls and method notes your reporting and assurance teams will need.
Questions we help answer
- Which disclosures will we be asked for, by whom and by when?
- Could an assurance provider trace each figure back to its source?
- Why do our answers to different customers and lenders not match?
- Who owns each data point, and how is it checked?
- How much of the reporting could be produced automatically?
What we do
Requirement mapping
Disclosures requested by regulation, as identified by your advisers, and by customers, lenders and tenders, mapped to individual data points.
Data point inventory and gaps
Each required data point with its source system, owner, coverage and current quality.
Controls and lineage
Owners, checks and documented calculations for each figure, from source record to reported number.
Reporting pipeline
Automated collection from meters, invoices, ERP and logistics systems into a single reporting dataset.
Questionnaire answer library
Approved answers linked to the dataset, reused across customer, lender and tender requests.
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How we approach it
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Collect the requirements
We gather every request the business receives and the requirements your advisers have identified, and reduce them to a list of data points.
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Trace each data point to source
For each one we find the system, the owner and the calculation, and mark where it is missing or estimated.
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Automate collection and checks
Data flows from source systems into the reporting dataset with validation checks at each step.
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Run a dry report
We produce a full draft report from the dataset and walk it through with your finance team before any external deadline.
Relevant industries
How an engagement with THEFOCUS starts
A first conversation is about your situation. If there is a fit, we propose a scoped diagnostic with a fixed deliverable before any larger commitment.
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A working conversation
Forty-five minutes with the person who would lead the work. We ask about the decision, the systems behind it and the deadline.
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A scoped diagnostic
Read-only access, a fixed timeframe and a written finding: what the records show, what it costs and what to change first.
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A plan you can act on
Changes, owners, measures and exclusions in writing. The same team then builds and measures, or hands over cleanly.
- One accountable team
- The people who diagnose also build the systems and measure the result.
- Partners chosen per problem
- Independent specializts join for the parts that need them, under one contract.
- Records before dashboards
- Orders, ledgers and logs are reconciled before any recommendation depends on them.
Questions executives ask
Will you provide assurance on the report?
No. We prepare the data, controls and documentation. Limited or reasonable assurance is given only by an independent assurance provider, and our role ends before that opinion.
Do you tell us which reporting standards apply?
Your legal and compliance advisers decide which requirements apply. We map those requirements to data and build the processes that produce it.
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