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Sedoha does your impact accounting.
Sedoha is an impact accounting firm that delivers on its own platform. It puts your organization’s full performance — all six capitals — on one auditable set of books, and then helps you improve it. You know your work; Sedoha brings the books.
It pays off where the impact figures carry weight.
Kept books earn their keep where a figure decides something. Four signs that an organization is one Sedoha can help:
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Decisions rest on the figures
A funder deciding a renewal, a board setting pay, a regulator reading a filing, an investor reading an LP report. Where the figures only go into a report nobody uses, the books have less to do.
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The evidence already exists
Spreadsheets, surveys, program reports, billing, sensor or ERP exports. It does not have to be clean. It has to exist.
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Someone owns the numbers
One person who knows where the records live and can answer a question when a judgment call needs the organization’s knowledge.
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The records can be shared
The operating records the books need, under NDA, and no more than that.
If that is your organization, here is how it goes.
It starts with a conversation, then a look at your records.
An introductory call
A conversation about the organization’s particular situation: who the figures answer to, what evidence exists, and whether Sedoha is a good fit for it. If working books would help first, ask for the walkthrough instead.
A study of the organization
Sedoha learns what you do, who it is for, and who you answer to, then maps what belongs on the books to the chart of accountsThe shared map of what gets counted, the master list of accounts every entry posts to.. You bring a list of the records you keep, and time with the person who knows them.
From here the relationship is the one you already have with your accounting firm: hand over the records, answer a question when a judgment call needs your knowledge, review the books at close. Nobody on your team has to learn a new system; the deliverable is your books, kept. The software carries the volume, classification, reconciliation, drafting, cross-checks. Sedoha’s accountants and impact professionals make every methodology decision and every material judgment, and record each one so it is applied the same way next time.
Then the books get built.
Any data in. One chart of accounts.
The evidence already exists: spreadsheets, surveys, sensor feeds, ERP exports, program reports. Whatever its shape, it is mapped onto the chart of accounts and reconciled until the books balance and every number traces to its source. Each outcome is priced where a published value factorPublished prices for outcomes: what a tonne of carbon or a workplace injury costs society, in currency. exists and disclosed where none does. Your part is answers, when a judgment call needs your knowledge.
Illustrative chart of accounts — synthetic figures, valuations of impact rather than cash.
At the first close, the books come back to you.
What comes back at close.
You review the first set of statements with Sedoha’s accountants. From then on the books are kept on a regular close, and whoever asks, a board, a funder, a regulator, the answer comes from the same books: GRI, SASB, ESRS, SDG reporting, board packs, funder templates. A new ask means a new report, not a new spreadsheet.
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Twelve statements
A balance sheet and a profit-and-loss statement for each of the six capitals: natural, human, social, intellectual, manufactured, financial. The same two statements your accountant already produces for money, kept for everything else.
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The trail behind every figure
Any number on a statement opens to the entries beneath it and the source record each entry came from. When someone asks where a number came from, the answer is in the books.
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A labeled list of what is not yet valued
Where no published price exists for an outcome, it is disclosed rather than invented. You see the gap, labeled, in its own units.
All of it is yours.
Your books, your data, a public standard.
Four commitments, each open to read in full.
Your records are yours, and so is what we generate from them: your chart of accounts, your valuations, your books.
That is more than the accounting profession’s own default, where the firm traditionally keeps even the workpapers behind your statements. An engagement collects the operating records the books need, and deliberately no more. What lands on the books is flows and impacts, not the identities of the people behind them. Your books live in their own database, separate from every other client’s; no client can read another’s data — the isolation is in the architecture, not a policy promise. Access is by named invitation, and anything derived from material you share under NDA carries that NDA.
The books are kept to a shared, published standard.
Financial statements are comparable because every company’s books meet the same public rules — GAAP, IFRS — that no single company owns. Impact needs the same, so we keep your books to A Working Standard for Impact Accounting, authored and maintained by Sedoha and published for anyone to adopt, extend, or supersede. The software is Sedoha’s; the standard is public, and every client’s books meet it.
Your extensions are yours.
No standard covers everything, and real engagements go where the published methods haven’t yet: an attribution rule fitted to your structure, or a valuation for an outcome nobody has priced. Those additions extend the standard, and they live on your books, marked as your own method rather than the published one — private unless you decide otherwise. If you choose to offer one back, we are building the process for taking it up: into the shared standard for everyone, as an option others can adopt, or kept as yours alone. That is how accounting standards have always improved: practice surfaces the problem, the standard absorbs the answer, and no one’s books travel with it. Nothing of yours becomes shared practice unless you offer it — and even then, what transfers is the method, never your figures.
Lessons make the software smarter, and they are shared by default — with the right to say no.
This is the oldest practice in professional services: your accountant has always kept what the work taught them, and every client benefits from every engagement before theirs. Confidentiality has always protected your information, never the firm’s experience. Sedoha works the same way. Every engagement teaches the system which strategies actually moved which outcomes, where a method needed judgment, what good evidence looks like. Those lessons, stripped of your name, your figures, and anything under NDA, improve the books for every client — and yours benefit from everyone else’s the same way. The line is the one you already know: you own what we build for you; we keep what the work teaches us. But because our experience lives in software rather than in a partner’s memory, we can give you a choice no traditional firm ever could: if you would rather your engagement teach nothing beyond your own books, say so and it won’t.
Kept books are meant to be managed on.
Every close after that makes the next decision easier.
Reporting is the floor, not the point. Every close teaches something the last one could not.
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Set goals on the accounts
A target on an account is a claim the next close can test: fewer injuries, more households above the line, less water drawn.
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Aim strategies at them
Each strategy is recorded against the goal it serves, so the books know what was tried, not only what happened.
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See what moved
At close, the statements show which strategies moved their accounts and by how much, with the trail behind each figure.
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Keep what works
The next period’s plan starts from that evidence. Over time the books hold a record of which strategies produce results for this organization, and the decisions get easier to defend.
See it working before you commit.
See working books before you commit.
Nearly every set of impact accounts ever published has been a bespoke project: consultants, spreadsheets, months, and no two organizations’ comparable. What had not been built is the system that produces them repeatably, comparably, and at a cost that falls with practice. That is what Sedoha delivers, on an open, citable standard, and two demonstration sets of books show it working.
Sedoha keeps two full demonstration sets of books and will walk you through either one. The first is a grants and impact-investment portfolio — funder to fund to microfinance institution to borrower — built on synthetic data and labeled as such throughout. The second books a global manufacturer’s impact entirely from BASF’s published corporate reporting; BASF is not a client, and the demonstration uses only its public reports. Ask for a walkthrough →
See what an engagement looks like, for investors & funders, companies & institutions, or nonprofits & social enterprises.
Let’s talk impact accounting.
Book a 30-minute call. You’ll hear whether your figures are ready for the books and what the first steps would look like.
The easiest first step: ask for a walkthrough of the two demonstration sets of books. It’s the quickest way to see the real thing, and there is nothing to prepare.
Questions first? Read the answers people ask for before they call.
Or email inquiries@sedoha.com.