You can assess your environmental and human impact metrics as systematically as your financial metrics

A flexible accounting system offers the tools to manage both ESG impact and finances.

For example:

• Measure individual human impacts – You might set up alerts for steps in your workflow to learn where you can proactively make your employees’ jobs easier.
• Measure community impacts – Perhaps you want to measure how your vendors and suppliers align with your company values so you can prioritize where to support them in improving weaker areas.
• Measure environmental impacts – You could go deeper than typical sustainability checklists (“organic,” “sustainable,” “green”) to a meaningful system that helps drive down your company’s environmental footprint.
• Report with transparency to any stakeholder group, whether customers, investors, supply chain partners, board members, customers or employees.
• Demonstrate the benefits you’re producing, clean and clear, free of harm to people and planet.
• Document compliance for internal and external validation.