Generate reports with external reporting
| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Aug 20, 2024 |
Dec 31, 2024 |
Business value
External reporting enables your organization to collaboratively create voluntary and regulatory disclosure reports across a range of standards and frameworks. Approval and audit workflows help your organization ensure compliance and data accuracy.
With flexible collaboration and approval workflows plus the ability to organize and reuse disclosure data, external reporting reduces complexity, enhances efficiency, and provides greater transparency for ESG reporting.
Feature details
ESG disclosure reporting can be a complex and challenging process for sustainability practitioners who need to report against numerous voluntary and regulatory reporting frameworks. Because these reports aren't standardized, it's difficult to know which metrics to report and how to structure disclosures. External reporting in Microsoft Sustainability Manager addresses these challenges by providing templates based on various ESG standards or frameworks. It helps you with the creation, completion, and approval of comprehensive reports across both quantitative and qualitative metrics.
Microsoft Sustainability Manager includes standard and framework reporting templates for:
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS)
- Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) 1 and 2
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 and 2
- Various Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
In addition, external reporting provides:
- Extensibility for custom template creation.
- Integration with MSM and SDSF data points.
- XBRL framework compatibility, allowing you to create and reuse concepts, facts, and dimensions across reports.
- Support for various response types for quantitative and qualitative disclosures including rich text, and numeric.
- Ability to generate ESG disclosure response drafts with Copilot based on your documents.
- Workflow UI for task creation and management and content approval.
- Disclosure generation in Excel and HTML.