Johnsons MME Chartered Accountants Business Advisors

sustainable business services

carbon management

With existing legislation already impacting on businesses that are significant users of energy, and Carbon trading flagged as potential Government policy, Carbon management is likely to become a regular part of doing business in Australia. Consumer demand, Government legislation and large supplier directives will shape the way businesses approach their Carbon management.

Johnsons MME can help your business understand its Carbon obligations by conducting the following:

Carbon Footprints

• Assist your business gather the required information to produce a Carbon footprint.
• Assess the current methods of recording the required information and suggest improvements to streamline the process.
• Produce a Carbon footprint report, identifying the major sources of Carbon in your business.
• Suggest changes to help reduce your Carbon footprint.
• Periodic reviews to report the impact of changes you make in your business to your Carbon footprint.

Carbon Legislative Requirements

• Undertake National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) reviews to determine if your business is required to be registered under NGER.
• If your business has undertaken its own NGER measurement and reporting, Johnsons MME can independently verify your compliance with NGER requirements.
• Review current reporting and record management systems and recommend changes to ensure required information is captured.

resource efficiency assessments

It is important to know the conversion rate of your inputs to outputs, particularly when the costs of inputs are rising. What you can measure, you can manage and by undertaking a Resource Efficiency Assessment there could be significant savings available, simply by looking at the way things are done.

Johnsons MME can help your business undertake a Resource Efficiency Assessment by conducting the following:

Establish the baseline for existing use of resources:

• Process map each product produced.
• Document inputs used in each process.
• Reasonability tests based on estimated costs and actual output quantities.
• Review existing recording systems and document shortfalls.
• Document existing monitoring mechanisms & KPI's.

Establish what best practice use of resources should be:

• Determine optimum cost of each product. Ie. produced with nil waste.
• Identify waste by comparing actual production using best practice costs compared to actual costs.
• Establish KPI's to monitor production and waste.

Document procedures to close the gap:

• Facilitate management and staff workshops to identify potential means of increasing outputs using the same inputs or maintaining the same outputs using fewer inputs.
• Cost benefit analysis for implementing suggested improvements.
• Investigate Government funding that may be available to assist with implementing suggested improvements.
• Develop reports to track progress towards achieving best practice outcomes.