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Tutorial: Review builtin standards or create your own

In external reporting in Sustainability Manager, standards refer to templates of various regulatory environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, frameworks, or directives.

This tutorial shows you how to:

Prerequisite

Review builtin standards

In this task, you review Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) standards that are included in external reporting in Sustainability Manager.

  1. On the left navigation, select All standards.

  2. On the Active Standards page, review the list of standards provided by external reporting in Sustainability Manager. These standards include:

    Available to all users Available to Sustainability Manager users
    Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) - May 2024 (preview)

    Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) Exposure Draft - October 2023 (preview)

    Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) Annexures I & II - July 2023 (preview)
    Global Reporting Initiative – February 2024 (preview)

    International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S1 & S2 - June 2023 (preview)

    Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - December 2023 (preview)
  3. Select Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) - May 2024 (preview).

  4. Select Requirements to review individual requirements related to the chosen standard. Requirements refer to each distinct disclosure that composes a standard.

Create a custom standard

In this task, you create a custom standard called Annual ESG reporting.

  1. On the Active Standards page, select New.

  2. Name your standard Annual ESG reporting.

    Screenshot of naming your custom standard.

You can now add standards with the UI or with a CSV file. For this tutorial, you need to add the standards in this table.

Name Standard Short code Parent requirement Description
Emissions Annual ESG reporting Emissions
Social Annual ESG reporting Social
Governance Annual ESG reporting Governance
Gross scope 1 emissions Annual ESG reporting scope 1 Emissions Add total scope 1 emissions of the organization.
Gross scope 2 emissions Annual ESG reporting scope 2 Emissions Add total scope 2 emissions of the organization.
Gross scope 3 emissions Annual ESG reporting scope 3 Emissions Add total scope 3 emissions of the organization.
Total no. of employees Annual ESG reporting Employee headcount Social Add total no. of employees by region.
No. of security incidents Annual ESG reporting Security incidents Governance Add total no. of security incidents that took place in the organization.

Add standards with the UI

In this task, you add the standards in the previous table manually in the UI. If you prefer to import them with a CSV file instead, skip to the next task.

On the Requirements tab, select the Add requirement button, and then complete the fields for each requirement listed in the table in the Create a custom standard task.

Screenshot of adding requirements to your custom standard.

Add standards with a CSV file

In this task, you add the standards in the previous table by importing them with a CSV file. If you prefer to add them manually instead, follow the instructions in the previous task.

  1. Copy the fields from the table in the Create a custom standard task into a CSV file.

  2. Select the chevron beside Import from Excel, and then select Import from CSV.

  3. Select your CSV file, and then select Next.

  4. Select Review mapping. The mapping should look like:

    Review mappings.

  5. Select Finish import, and then select Done.

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