Accounting basics for sustainability teams
Learn the basics of understanding your organisation's financial data for carbon accounting purposes
By Misha1 author11 articles
- Where your carbon footprint sits in your accounts
- The five account types, and which ones hold emissions
- Debits, credits and why some numbers are negative
- Which ledger lines are not purchases
- Which period a cost belongs to
- Liability accounts that can hold purchases
- Capital and operating spend
- Inventory and cost of goods sold
- How a trial balance shows your ledger is complete
- Reading a chart of accounts you have never seen
- What Avarni needs from your finance system