Value comes in many forms.
Financial value is just one of them.
- NaturalAir, water, land and the living systems they support
- SocialTrust and relationships with communities and stakeholders
- HumanPeople’s skills, experience and health
- ManufacturedBuildings, equipment and infrastructure people have made
- FinancialFunds raised or earned to run the organisation
- IntellectualKnow-how, systems and intellectual property
Every organisation contributes to and draws from these capitals. That change comes from somewhere and goes somewhere, between the organisation, the earth and the society around it, and it deserves the same careful accounting as money. Sedoha keeps track of the impacts organisations have on these capitals the same way accountants keep books for finances, based on established frameworks and methods developed by the IFRS Foundation, the Capitals Coalition and the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts.
About multi-capital accounting →What multi-capital accounting can do for you.
Multi-capital accounting turns your impact data into a shared set of accounts that your entire value chain can draw from. Whether you are an investor, a programme manager or a reporting lead, it helps you actively manage your impact towards the goals you share.
Books for each capital
Why: a report gives you the result. Accounts give you the full picture: what happened across your operations, and what led to each outcome.
How: using double-entry bookkeeping, every outcome is recorded once, with each change it caused in any capital, so any result can be traced back to its cause.
What: your impact data, compiled into a chart of accounts with books for any capital, valued where a valuation is relevant and available.
Same result, different stories
Companies A and B · one year
Two companies, one year. Company A builds a road on 10 hectares of its own land. Company B builds the same road on its car park, while its trucks wear away 10 hectares of land elsewhere.
A report shows identical results
| Company | Financial | Natural | Manufactured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company A | −20 | −10 ha | +1 road |
| Company B | −20 | −10 ha | +1 road |
Identical in every capital.
The accounts tell different stories
Company A
Builds a road on its natural land, for 20
- Financial
- −20
- Natural
- land −10 ha
- Manufactured
- road +1
The land became the road.
Company B
Builds a road on its car park, for 20
- Financial
- −20
- Manufactured
- road +1
Its trucks erode its natural land
- Natural
- land −10 ha
The land is simply lost, with nothing gained in exchange, and the trucks are named as the cause.
Illustrative example.
Progress monitored against your goals
Why: to manage your impact proactively, against the goals and frameworks that matter to you, rather than only reporting on it after the fact.
How: each goal and framework metric is mapped to the accounts that feed it, and progress is measured from its baseline against its target and the path expected by now.
What: progress on the metrics and compliance frameworks that you report against, and on your own goals, read straight from the books.
Goal progress across your portfolio
Quarter to 30 Sep 2026
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Water consumed across your portfolio, thousand m³ Behind
112Now 103Target 82
One figure, from every entity, whatever it reports under
| Entity | Reports under | Water consumed | Your share | Counts toward your goal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm co-op | IRIS+ OI1697 | 120 | 20% | 24 |
| Water utility | GRI 303-5 | 730 | 10% | 73 |
| Health clinics | ESRS E3-4 | 85 | 7% | 6 |
| Your portfolio | IRIS+ SFDR | 103 |
Thousand m³. Your share runs through the funds that hold each company. Each standard names the same quantity, so the books carry one figure into all of them.
Illustrative example.
Evidence-based improvement strategies
Why: to find where you can exercise influence and act where it is most needed, so your effort moves the numbers you care about in the direction you need them to go.
How: the results of your own actions, as recorded in the books, are read alongside an up-to-date library of strategies and their published evidence, and each option is ranked by how strongly that evidence supports it and how much influence you have over it.
What: strategies from a living library, matched to the impact goals you care most about, with evidence-backed suggestions for moving your impact numbers.
Improvement strategies
From the strategy library · matched to your goals · 30 Sep 2026
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Closed-loop water on rinse lines 2 and 3
Clean and reuse the rinse water, instead of drawing fresh water every time.
Since rinse line 1 started reusing its water (closed-loop), it has used 11% less water, six quarters running.
Water consumed IRIS+ OI1697 · behind target
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Contract lots sized for local firms
Split large purchases into smaller contracts that local businesses can bid for.
Published studies find that smaller contract lots draw more bids from local firms, and your purchasing is fully in your hands.
Local supplier organisations IRIS+ PI6385 · behind target
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Supplier development with a local business network
Help small local suppliers meet your standards, working with a business association.
Supplier programmes tend to work when a local partner stays involved, so results depend on that partner as well as on you.
Local supplier organisations IRIS+ PI6385 · behind target
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Basin water agreement with neighbouring users
Agree with other water users in the same river basin on how much each draws.
Basin agreements have worked in some places, but the evidence is thin and the outcome depends on what other users agree to.
Water consumed IRIS+ OI1697 · behind target
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Paid apprenticeships with the local college
Take on apprentices each year and train them on the job, with the college teaching alongside.
The two sites that started apprenticeships last year trained a third more staff than the others.
Employees trained IRIS+ OI4229 · ahead of target
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Safety walks led by frontline teams
Let the people doing the work lead weekly checks for hazards, and fix what they find.
Workplace injuries fell where frontline-led walks were introduced, in your plants and in published studies.
Workplace injuries · own target
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Shared upkeep of village water points
Fund a local maintenance crew so water points shared with the community keep working.
Water points with a funded crew stayed in use far longer than those without, in published programme reviews.
People with safe water · own target
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Share process know-how with key suppliers
Train suppliers in the methods that cut waste in your own plants.
Supplier waste fell in the first pilot; one season of results so far.
Supplier waste · own target
Illustrative example.
What Sedoha can do for you.
You bring the records. Sedoha keeps the books and learns what works. You receive what you need to manage and improve your impact.
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Sedoha works with your data
Spreadsheets, surveys, programme reports, finance exports: whatever you already collect, in whatever state. Sedoha maps it onto one chart of accounts, however many entities, funds or sites are involved, values it under published rules and keeps the books current.
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How we work with you
We start from your goals, your priorities and the frameworks you report against. Together we agree which capitals and measures matter, set up your accounts around them, and review the results with you at each reporting point, adjusting as your priorities change.
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What you get
A solution built around your needs: statements for each capital, reports for your board, funders or regulator, and evidence-backed strategies for what to change next, delivered in the formats and interfaces that work best for you, from written reports to live dashboards. And a partner who stays with you as you act on them, learning what works alongside you.
Each step is supported by Sedoha’s AI-native accounting and continuous-improvement engines.
Walk through an engagement →See each step with three worked examples on the Solutions page.
Start a conversation.
Bring the reports you have to produce, the submissions behind them, and the figures most likely to be challenged. Nothing else needs preparing.
Or tell us about your organisation and what you’re trying to measure and improve, and we’ll get back to you.
Email works too: inquiries@sedoha.com.