For investors & funders
Where capital goes, the world follows. You decide where it goes.
Fund managers, investors, foundations, development finance institutions and banks decide which farms get irrigated, which clinics open, and which small businesses make it through their first hard year. No single programme reaches that far. The good those decisions do deserves to be counted with the same care as the returns, and so do the risks that come with them.
Impact accounting puts it on the books, next to the money, where it can be checked, compared and improved.
What changes when your impact is on the books
Every report from one set of books
LP packs, board reviews, results frameworks and sustainability disclosures all come from the same entries, so the numbers agree everywhere they appear. Your investees report once, instead of filling in a different template for every funder.
How: each fact is entered once into a double-entryEvery value is recorded twice, once as where it came from and once as where it went, so the books check themselves. chart of accounts. Every report is a different reading of it.
A portfolio that adds up
Compare investees side by side and roll the whole portfolio into one set of books, across concessional, blended and commercial capital.
How: every investee posts to the same six-capital chart of accountsThe shared map of what gets counted, the master list of accounts every entry posts to., and a result shared along the chain is counted once, never twice.
Figures that stand up to questions
When an auditor, an LP or a board member asks where a number came from, the answer is already there, down to the households the capital was meant to reach.
How: every balance opens to the entries beneath it, and every entry to its source.
Allocations that get better every year
See which strategies actually moved the numbers, and put the next round of capital there.
How: goals sit on the accounts, strategies are recorded against the goals they serve, and each close shows what moved and by how much.
A full picture of where the risk sits
Negative impacts, open obligations and weak evidence sit on the same books as the good results, investee by investee. You see where the portfolio is exposed while there is still time to act, before it turns into a financial, regulatory or reputational problem.
How: negative impacts are booked as liabilities next to the gains, and every figure shows the evidence it rests on.
What it looks like, whoever allocates the capital
Fund managers
Put your portfolio’s impact on the books.
Bring the reports you have to produce. Nothing else to prepare.
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