UK S1·Decision guide·Materiality and scope
A UK SRS S1 materiality and risk-opportunity register should record more than ESG topics. It should identify each sustainability-related risk or opportunity, its source, value-chain location, time horizon, pathway to the entity’s prospects, materiality rationale, disclosure consequences, financial effects, metrics, owner, evidence and review triggers.
Helps you decideWhich sustainability-related risks and opportunities are material and what disclosure work do they trigger?
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UK S1·Decision guide·Materiality and scope
Identify UK SRS S1 risks and opportunities by starting with the entity’s business model and value chain, not a generic ESG list. Map the resources and relationships the entity depends on and affects; consider external change; then trace each issue to a plausible effect on cash flows, access to finance or cost of capital over the short, medium or long term.
Helps you decideHow to create a complete, controlled register that connects sustainability matters to the entity’s prospects.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Materiality and scope
Under UK SRS S1, information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions of primary users of general purpose financial reports about providing resources to the entity. The assessment is entity-specific and information-specific.
Helps you decideHow to decide which information about an identified sustainability-related risk or opportunity must appear in the report.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Materiality and scope
UK SRS S1 already captures material nature-related risks and opportunities through its general requirements. The entity should examine how it depends on and affects natural resources throughout the value chain, translate those dependencies and impacts into risk and opportunity pathways, and apply investor materiality.
Helps you decideWhich nature-related information is material to primary users because it affects prospects.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Materiality and scope
UK SRS S1 does not contain a fixed checklist of human-capital disclosures. An entity should identify how its business model depends on people - including critical skills, workforce capacity, safety, engagement, retention and relevant value-chain labour - and how weaknesses or improvements could affect revenue, costs, operations, assets, liabilities, cash flows, access to finance or cost of capital.
Helps you decideWhich workforce risks and opportunities, and which supporting information, are material to primary users.
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