Deloitte Announces New Workiva ESG Accelerators to Help Streamline CSRD Compliance

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Nov 20, 2024, 09:27 ET

Four new accelerators focus on double materiality review, finance emissions calculations, gap assessments and compliance workflow tracking

NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In an extension of Deloitte and Workiva's existing alliance and environmental, social and governance (ESG) accelerators, Deloitte and Workiva announced today the release of four new sustainability-focused accelerators to help organizations streamline regulatory compliance activities required under the European Union's (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The new accelerators provide organizations with tools to help enhance double materiality review, calculate financed emissions, conduct regulatory gap assessments and track related workflows.

Available now in the Workiva Marketplace, the new Deloitte-built accelerators are offered along with Deloitte's advisory services and are designed to help expand and enhance organizations' sustainability-focused governance, risk and compliance (GRC) controls and automation functionality within the Workiva platform to help further ease compliance activities related to the CSRD and other EU regulatory standards.

"The demand for a comprehensive and dynamic platform to manage ESG reporting and other regulatory compliance activities continues to grow alongside the expanding global regulatory environment and other government-led climate initiatives," said Dina Trainor, a managing director and ESG controllership leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Deloitte's latest accelerators on the Workiva platform can help organizations to more easily untangle and report on complex and sometimes overlapping ESG reporting rules. Our goal continues to focus on helping companies meet their reporting obligations, reinforce stakeholder confidence in their commitments to responsible practices and foster a more sustainable future for society."

"Investors are increasingly seeking transparency, particularly in relation to sustainability practices. Our research indicates that 88% of institutional investors prioritize companies that effectively integrate financial and ESG data," said Julie Iskow, president and chief executive officer of Workiva. "Workiva is the only platform in the industry bringing financial reporting, ESG and GRC together in one secure, controlled, audit-ready environment. Deloitte's new ESG accelerators leverage the full capability of the Workiva Platform to help clients address the need for reporting that is integrated across business lines, accessible to all stakeholders and powered by innovation to ultimately achieve better, faster integration of ESG into governance frameworks."

Deloitte's new ESG accelerators for use on the Workiva platform include:

CSRD Double Materiality Accelerator, a workspace accelerator preconfigured in alignment with Deloitte's double materiality methodology, designed to help enable a faster and more efficient implementation of CSRD double materiality assessments.
Financed Emissions Calculator, a Deloitte-built calculator accelerator that sits on the Workiva platform that helps organizations streamline Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) Category 15 financed emissions ("Scope 3 financed emissions"). The calculator tool leverages the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials' (PCAF) framework for GHG emissions reporting to help enhance automation and increase transparency in calculations.
ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standard) Mapping Accelerator, a gap assessment accelerator designed to enable clients to conduct faster and more efficient ESRS gap assessments on the Workiva platform. After completing a double materiality assessment, the accelerator can be used to map existing GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) disclosures to ESRS reporting requirements outlined within the CSRD to identify gaps in disclosure requirements that may require future remediation.
Activity Log Analyzer, a workflow tracker accelerator designed to maintain a complete log of workspace-specific user information and activities from the Workiva platform to help organizations monitor and track ESG activities in a more comprehensive and streamlined manner. This accelerator can also be tailored to a range of use cases to help clients identify and monitor user activities across other initiatives.

About Workiva
Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK) is on a mission to power transparent reporting for a better world. We build and deliver the world's leading cloud platform for assured integrated reporting to meet stakeholder demands for action, transparency, and disclosure of financial and non-financial data. Workiva offers the only unified SaaS platform that brings customers' financial reporting, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), & Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data together in a controlled, secure, audit-ready platform. Our platform simplifies the most complex reporting and disclosure challenges by streamlining processes, connecting data and teams, and ensuring consistency. Learn more at workiva.com.

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