Reading a P&L in a Sustainability Business
An environmental enterprise is usually judged on one set of numbers and funded on a completely different one. Tonnes diverted from landfill, hectares restored, households connected, jobs created for women in a governorate where there were none: that is the reporting that wins the next grant and fills the annual review. The profit and loss statement is prepared quietly by an accountant, filed, and read by almost nobody inside the organisation. The result is a familiar pattern across the region. Organisations that are doing genuinely good work, with impact figures that hold up to scrutiny, discover in their fourth or … Continue reading