Without proper management accounting and controlling, corporations could not run well. Similarly to money, setting a greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting centralises the information about GHG emissions (i.e., expenses) and absorptions (i.e., revenues) from all branches of the company. From R&D, to procurement and manufacturing, to carrying, to after-sales and administration, emissions become tangible as the aggregate amount becomes measurable and easily trackable over time. Quantifying enables your company to monitor its GHG decrease over time (1). In short, better decision-making (2). Indeed, the greatest benefit occurs when coupling emissions with financial information by setting an internal carbon price per tonnes of CO₂ equivalent. Hence, it will become clear where your company should invest internally to get the most efficient and profitable emissions reduction (3). Allowing a financial management of corporate emissions in day-to-day operations, this accounting innovation also makes possible to set up carbon budgets and corresponding cash budgets for the coming months and years, budgets that clarifies the financial impacts of GHG emissions on profitability (3). Furthermore, such GHG forecast budgets allow to align the company’s strategy to global carbon budgets of the industry or country the latter is active in (3). Interested in the next steps this solution unlocks for your corporate decarbonisation? Browse the explorer and discover for instance how you can analyse your portfolios through greenhouse gas intensity per product or service! Interesting, isn’t it? So why stop when things are going so well? Discover also how your company can slash its emissions through products and services redesign!

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In 2022, a Salesforce survey over 1,297 knowledge workers across 11 countries surprisingly spotlighted over 25% did not even know that “carbon accountants” existed (4). Furthermore, 53% were unaware if their company acted towards net zero emissions or not even if 70% considered essential that their corporation acted so (4). Unconsciously, such knowledge gaps can somehow reverberate at the scale of the entire company, leading to illogical corporate behaviors. In the critical context of climate change, implementing carbon accounting and GHG internal prices proves to be a logical best practice for managing well a company. Indeed, besides its strong benefits, carbon emissions accounting is super easy to implement nowadays. Automated solutions evaluate your emissions in real time based on your financial flows and management accounting (5), providing reliable metrics under various international GHG accounting standards (6). For instance, those from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol are the most used worldwide (7). However, alternative standards also exist such as the E-ledgers Accounting Method. Hinging on activity-based costing principles as well as blockchain technology, the latter eliminates duplicative counting of emissions in Scope 3 (8). In addition, it perfectly fits multitier and multi-jurisdictional value-chains sometimes complex to handle (9). Choose the alternative suiting the most your company to increase the prosperity of it as well as the society!

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