How it works

How we find
the missing number.

The IIAF is a financial method, not another report. It takes the data your sustainability team already holds. It prices that data. Then it builds the Complete P&L, the full picture of value set right next to your official accounts. The gap between the two is the number your board needs.

Marcel Jacobs Reuters Global Sustainability Awards Judge MEIRA ESG Awards Judge Guest Lecturer, Erasmus University
Why your current numbers lie

The official books were built
for a world that no longer exists.

They record what you spent, not what you broke. So the balance sheet looks clean. It is carrying risk nobody has priced yet.

Conventional P&L, what your board seesGAAP / IFRS
Revenue€ 2,400M
Operating costs− € 1,680M
Depreciation & amortisation− € 120M
EBIT€ 600M
What this statement is not telling you
Carbon Debt, unpriced emissionsUnrecognised
Natural capital depletionUnrecognised
Human capital deteriorationUnrecognised
Supply-chain social liabilitiesUnrecognised
Unaccounted Value, estimatedup to 40%
01

It books revenue from selling tomorrow's soil today

You consume natural capital every year: water, soil, biodiversity. You never expense it. The liability is real. It just is not on your books yet. Markets and regulators have started to price it. Your auditors have not.

02

Carbon Debt accumulates off the books

Your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are a real future cost. Carbon pricing is tightening fast: CBAM, EU ETS, national schemes. None of it shows in the P&L until the bill lands. By then the market has already marked down your equity.

03

Human capital is expensed, not invested

Your people drive productivity. Their skill, retention and wellbeing all matter. Yet accounting treats every people cost as an expense. So boards underinvest, because the return never shows up in the numbers.

The methodology

The Integrated Impact
Accounting Framework

The IIAF does not give you another sustainability report. It gives you the Complete P&L. It shows what your business really costs, what it is really worth, and where the gap between those two is widening.

"We take the data your sustainability team already has. We price it. We build the Complete P&L next to your official accounts. The gap between the two is the number your board needs."

1
Step one

Find what matters

We find the impacts that matter in your sector. Carbon, water, people, supply chain. Everything else gets cut. No noise. No vanity metrics.

2
Step two

Price it

We turn each impact into a number in euros. Carbon becomes a cost. Water becomes a liability. People become an asset. Every figure holds up in due diligence.

3
Step three

Put it to work

The Complete P&L feeds your board calls, your investor story and your valuation. We build it to survive due diligence, not to look good in a report.

The Complete P&L in practice · anonymised worked example

From financial EBITDA to True EBITDA

This waterfall shows how the IIAF adjusts normal EBITDA across your value drivers. The environmental cost pulls the figure down. That is a real cost your financial statements never show. The people and societal value drivers add worth the normal P&L was hiding. The result is a True EBITDA above your financial baseline. Every step is defensible, line by line.

Illustrative analysis based on publicly available data, produced under confidentiality and anonymised. Values indexed, not company-identifying. Financial EBITDA adjusted across the IIAF value drivers to produce True EBITDA. Illustrative only · Non-GAAP / Non-IFRS.

The four pillars of analysis

Where the hidden value
and risk actually live

Every engagement looks at four areas. Each one surfaces a hidden cost or an unseen asset. We translate all of it into financial language your CFO and CSO can both act on.

C
Pillar 01

Carbon & Climate Capital

Transition risk & stranded-asset exposure CFO

We price your full Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. We test them against forward carbon prices, new rules and physical climate risk. The output is one figure: your Carbon Debt. A real cost in euros that your accounts ignore today.

  • Carbon liability in currency, not tonnes
  • Stranded-asset identification by asset class
  • Regulatory exposure mapping, CSRD, CSDDD, TCFD
  • Transition pathway cost modelling
N
Pillar 02

Natural Capital & Dependency

Supply-chain repricing risk CFO CSO

Water, land, biodiversity and raw materials are inputs you rely on. You do not pay the full price for them today. We measure how fast you deplete them. We model what happens when the price catches up. And we show which parts of your supply chain carry the most risk.

  • Natural capital depletion valued in currency
  • TNFD-aligned exposure assessment
  • Supply-chain repricing scenario modelling
  • Dependency versus impact mapping by input
H
Pillar 03

Human Capital & Social Licence

Productivity, retention & CSDDD liability CFO CSO

We treat your workforce, wellbeing, community ties and supply-chain human rights as real assets and liabilities. We model what it costs you when human capital erodes. And we price the social cost before new rules force you to.

  • Human capital value as a balance-sheet asset
  • CSDDD supply-chain liability assessment
  • Social-licence risk monetisation
  • Retention & productivity financial modelling
G
Pillar 04

Governance & Integration Alpha

Cost of capital & valuation premium CFO

Strong governance earns a premium in equity markets. We measure the Integration Alpha you can win by closing your rating gap against peers. Then we model what that does to your WACC, your investor appeal and your long-term cost of capital.

  • Rating gap versus sector peers quantified
  • Integration Alpha, enterprise-value uplift
  • WACC impact modelling from governance gains
  • Premium positioning for investor communications
The language shift

New words for a new balance sheet.

We swap the words that get ignored in board meetings for the words that get budgets approved.

Carbon footprint report
Carbon Debt

A real cost in euros, not tonnes. It is the price of emissions nobody has put on the books yet. It runs through your Complete P&L as a cost you can defend, the financial weight of your environmental cost exposure.

ESG score
Integration Alpha

The worth the market has not yet priced, the gap between your book value and your Complete value. We show it as a percentage uplift and evidence it with the value bridge. A number your IR team can take into meetings.

Sustainability report
The Complete P&L

The full picture of value your standard P&L leaves out, priced in euros and set beside your accounts. Built to survive due diligence. Made for your CFO and Investment Committee, not for regulators.

Net-zero pledge
Transition Cost Curve

A capex model that maps the real cost of your path to net zero. It prices the cost of waiting, too. It turns a pledge into a plan your Committee can approve or challenge.

Social impact
Social Licence Value

The priced worth of your community ties, your people value and a clean supply chain. And the cost if you lose it. Counted on your Complete P&L, and a risk in your story.

ESG ROI
Impact-Expense Ratio

One KPI that tracks value created against environmental and social cost. We update it every quarter. It sits beside EBITDA, ROIC and WACC as a live measure of sustainability.

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What you actually receive

One engine.
Four ways to run it.

The ladder starts with a lightweight First Read to size the gap. The three engagements below are where the full engine runs. Each rung earns the next.

Rung 1 · First Read · a fast public-data pass that sizes the gap before you commit to the full Discovery. See the full ladder →
Rung 2 · the entry engine

Discovery

Fixed scope, priced on the call. Clients usually surface many times the fee in hidden value or unpriced risk, before they act on anything.
  • A Complete P&L across your material value drivers
  • Value-gap waterfall, hidden value and where it sits
  • Environmental and natural capital priced in euros
  • An anonymised board-ready artifact
  • One executive briefing, your team in the room
Timeline: scoped and fixed at kick-off
Rung 3 · retained

Always On

Every quarter, we value-price your capital decisions before you sign off. A stranded asset caught early costs a fraction of one the market finds first.
  • A Complete P&L kept current in your FP&A cycle
  • Every major spend reviewed before approval
  • Six live metrics for your C-suite dashboard
  • Stranded-asset early-warning system
  • Quarterly board-ready summary included
Structure: quarterly, scoped per year
Rung 4 · project

Raise Prep

A verified premium can move your raise price in a real way. We build the proof. You capture the upside in the room.
  • Three-gate audit, data, legal and financial
  • Investor narrative with the real number, bridged from the books
  • Investor Day pack and Q&A playbook
  • Premium positioning and communications strategy
  • Full anonymisable artifact suite
Structure: project, scoped per deal
Fit

Who this works for,
and who it does not

This is for you if

  • You are listed, raising, or about to, and valuation matters now
  • Your CFO and CSO are not yet speaking the same language
  • You suspect your real value and real risk are both bigger than the accounts show
  • You want a number you can defend in due diligence, not just a report to file
  • You operate in the GCC or Europe under tightening disclosure

This is not for you if

  • You want another ESG report that looks good and changes nothing
  • You need a compliance checkbox and nothing beyond it
  • Your leadership treats sustainability purely as reputation management
  • You are not prepared to let the number challenge a decision
  • You want a retainer for the sake of a retainer
The shift, in one view
Before · the sustainability report After · the Complete P&L
Carbon measured in tonnes, filed for complianceCarbon Debt priced in euros, on the Complete P&L
An ESG score the board skims and forgetsIntegration Alpha, a premium your IR team can defend
A net-zero pledge with no costed pathA Transition Cost Curve your Committee can approve
Sustainability sits outside the P&LA Complete P&L your CFO owns before the market does
CFO and CSO speak different languagesOne number, one conversation, both in the room

Stop managing data.
Start pricing capital.

Book a call and we will look at your business through the IIAF lens. Then we tell you, plainly, whether the deeper work makes sense.

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