End-to-End Carbon Accounting: Building Financial-Grade Precision Across the Value Chain
A practical guide to moving from estimates to transaction-level, auditable carbon data
As organizations accelerate their decarbonization goals, they are discovering that traditional carbon accounting methods are no longer sufficient. Most current approaches rely heavily on estimates, averages, and disconnected datasets β making it difficult to meet regulatory expectations, satisfy stakeholders, and guide strategic decision-making
The whitepaper β End-to-End Carbon Accounting: Building Financial-Grade Precision Across the Value Chain explains how companies can shift to a transactional, ledger-based model that captures actual emissions data, enables standardized data exchange, and directly connects carbon metrics to financial and operational data across the enterprise.
Whatβs covered in this whitepaper:
- Why current carbon accounting methods fall short β and how estimation gaps hinder accuracy and auditability.
- The three core capabilities of end-to-end, transaction-based carbon accounting: recording actuals, exchanging standardized data, and linking carbon metrics to financial information.
- How granular emissions data across procurement, production, logistics, and consumption enables smarter investment, sourcing, and operational decisions.
- Why organizations must replace averages with verified primary data from suppliers β especially for Scope 3, which represents up to 80β90% of emissions.
- The role of ERP systems in embedding carbon data into financial processes, delivering a unified, auditable source of truth.
Achieving net-zero ambitions requires more than reporting β it requires precise, trustworthy carbon data integrated directly into business operations. This whitepaper shows how an ERP-embedded, transaction-based approach gives organizations the visibility, accuracy, and governance needed to manage emissions with the same discipline as financial accounting.
Download the whitepaper to learn how transaction-level carbon accounting can strengthen compliance, improve decision-making, and unlock long-term value.
