Free delegate report: Making it Count

With thanks to the SROI Network and Buzzacott, every Good Deals 2011 delegate received the report Making it count: A social enterprise guide to accounting for value. 

All SocialEnterpriseLive.com members are entitled to one too. Sign up to get your copy or read on for more information on the report.

The last couple of years have seen a rapid increase in interest in social and environmental accounting. Questions of how we know we are making a difference and what sort of difference was it anyway are recognised as fundamental.

While organisations and their investors are recognising they probably should be doing something more, they are not sure what. There is a profusion of approaches and arguments over which approach is best. In an attempt to work through this challenge, the SROI Network has argued for an approach to what we call ‘accounting for value’.

Making it count: A social enterprise guide to accounting for value, draws together some of the current thinking and practice around accounting for value. It explores some of the challenges and myths, and provides insight into why and how investors, commissioners and intermediary organisations are assessing the value created by the organisations they fund and support. Importantly, it also spotlights some examples of accounting for value in action – based on a range of case studies written up for the SROI Network.