Articles on reporting

Six pieces for a company reporting for the first time: what the standard is, which data to collect, what you will be asked, and what the road to a first report looks like.

What VSME is, and who needs it

The voluntary standard for small and medium companies: what it contains, why banks and large customers ask for it, and what the «Basic module» means.

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Which data Scope 1 and Scope 2 need

Fuel and electricity invoices, refrigerant service reports, meters. What exactly to collect, in which units, and where it usually goes wrong.

5 min read

A first report, step by step

Boundary, period, data, evidence, review and release. The realistic order, and where skipping a step stops you.

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What the bank or a large customer will ask

The questionnaires arrive in different shapes, but the questions repeat. What they ask, why, and what to have ready before they ask.

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Evidence and data quality

Why the invoice beside a figure matters more than the figure, what «estimate» means, and how both show up when somebody asks.

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Spend-based Scope 3: what it tells you and what it does not

An estimate from purchasing can be useful and misleading at the same time. When to use it, how to read it, and why it is not added to Scope 1 and 2.

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Prepare the report in Hosmos

Boundary, data, the Scope 1 and 2 calculation and the export to PDF and Excel — in one place, in Slovene or English.

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