Assurance Standards

Net Balance uses AccountAbility’s AA1000 (2008) Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) for all of our assurance engagements. The AA1000AS is one of the most commonly applied sustainability assurance standards used across the globe today. It allows us, as assurance providers, to go beyond mere verification of performance data, to evaluate the way reporting organisations manage sustainability.

The AA1000AS provides a comprehensive and holistic review of an organisation’s sustainability performance. The benefits that you as a reporting organisation can realise through AA1000AS assurance include:

• providing your stakeholders with confidence that your sustainability performance information is accurate and reliable
• ensuring that you are addressing and responding to the issues that are important to your business or organisation and your stakeholders
• identification of areas where internal and external sustainability management processes and systems could be improved
• providing you with an opinion on how well you manage sustainability
• helping you to further integrate sustainability into your core business operations.