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Overview of the help pages

General

1. What can I see in the dashboard?

The dashboard provides you with a structured overview of the double materiality analysis process. It is divided into several steps. For more information, please click on the link.

2. What do I do in the pre-analysis?

The aim of this process step is to record the entire value chain and the associated stakeholders of your company in preparation for the double materiality analysis. For more information, please click on the link.

Impact Assessment (non-financial materiality)

3. Impact Assessment: What is Impact AI?

The Impact AI suggests a certain number of potentially relevant impacts for your company based on the NACE codes you have selected. For more information, please click on the link.

4. Impact Assessment: Capture

The identification of company-specific impacts, risks and opportunities, or IROs for short, is the key element of the double materiality analysis. The aim of this process step is to record the company-specific impacts. For more information, please click on the link.

5. Impact Assessment: Rating

In this process step, the previously recorded impacts are assessed according to their severity and probability of occurrence. For more information, please click on the link.

6. Impact Assessment: Assignment

In this process step, the impacts are assigned to the ESRS topics. For more information, please click on the link.

7. Impact Assessment: Review

n this process step, the information on impact materiality is checked for accuracy and completeness. For more information, please click on the link.

Financial Assessment (financial materiality)

8. Financial Assessment: Capture

In this process step, financial risks and opportunities associated with sustainability aspects are recorded. For more information, please click on the link.

9. Financial Assessment: Rating

In this process step, the probability of occurrence and the financial scope of the risks and opportunities are assessed. For more information, please click on the link.

10. Financial Assessment: Assignment

In this process step, the risks and opportunities are assigned to the ESRS topics. For more information, please click on the link.

11. Financial Assessment: Review

In this process step, the financial materiality disclosures are checked for accuracy and completeness. For more information, please click on the link.

Other

12. What is to be done in the completeness check?

This view helps you to keep track of all relevant topics and ensure that significant IROs have been correctly assessed and documented. For more information, please click on the link.

13. What needs to be done in the finalisation?

In this final step of the double materiality analysis, you will receive a final overview of your work. For more information, please click on the link.

14. How is the materiality assessment carried out?

The classification of an IRO as material or non-material is based on the defined materiality thresholds. For more information, please click on the link.