Sustainability Reports

Increasingly more companies are focusing their efforts and resources in the so-called Corporate Social responsibility (CSR). Consequently, they carry out accines and environmental and social programmes beyond their direct environment. This situation presents a new challenge for consultants and advisers, both industries which are ytraduce in the following questions: * how measuring and analyzing the performance of these strategies? * How can prove that CSR strategies fill the expectations of stakeholders (stakeholders)? * How emostrar investors that CSR is profitable and worth carried out? Response to These questions are in what are called, sustainability reports. In this sense the prejudiced article has three main objectives: 1. establish the key questions that a company must perform to determine if they are prepared to undertake a sustainability report.

2. Identify the relevant aspects that enable a company to choose the most appropriate standard according to your needs. 3 Show the different tools that currently exist to measure CSR. Let's start. What is a sustainability report? It is a voluntary preparation document whose objective is to inform public financial, environmental, economic performance of a company of any size or sector. In a sense, the main features of a sustainability report are: * is a strategic document: helps to measure and analyze a company's performance and facilitates continuous improvement strategies, allows to establish if the company meets the expectations of its stakeholders (stakeholders). Likewise, facilitates the transparency, credibility and benefits the image of the company to the public in general.

** Is a document that can be compared: there are methodologies and international standards that allow you to standardize the performance of a company in a balanced and objective manner. ** Is a standing communication tool: this type of reporting has evinciado being a highly effective way to build links with lobbyists in the form continuous and effective. Do know if you are ready to develop and maintain a sustainability report? To know if it is the right time to make a report of sustainability, it is necessary the company please answer the following questions: * does the company intend to establish a direct communication with its stakeholders (stakeholders)? * Environmental and social strategies are developing beyond the norm? * The company is prepared to be debated on issues of sustainability with stakeholders? * Does the company continuous improvement processes that enable them to show the positive evolution of its indicators in time? * Do you have the economic, human and technological resources to generate, document, store and analyse information from the report of sustainability within the required quality parameters? If the answer to all questions without excepecion is if, then, the company may proceed to select the methodology more in line with your needs.