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ESRS Practical Control Templates

One Excel workbook of control templates for the ESRS judgement calls that get questioned — boundaries, estimates, omissions, financial effects and the value chain cap. It comes from the same package as five Knowledge Hub guides, listed below.

Who this is for A 3-minute read for reporting teams working through Running the reporting cycle: governance, data and controls, and for reviewers testing whether the evidence behind it holds.
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Published

12 Aug 2026

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Last reviewed

11 Aug 2026

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One file and five guides. The workbook holds the control templates in editable form — and the five Knowledge Hub guides from the same package cover reporting boundaries, estimates and undue cost or effort, current and anticipated financial effects, omissions and confidential information, and the value chain cap.

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ESRS Practical Control Templates — Excel (56.2 KB)
Related guides
ESRS Reporting Boundaries: Financial Consolidation, Own Operations and the Value Chain; ESRS Estimates and ‘Undue Cost or Effort’: When Relief Is Defensible; Current and Anticipated Financial Effects Under ESRS: A Practical Guide for Finance Teams; ESRS Omissions and Confidential Information: Commercial Prejudice, Trade Secrets and Privacy; ESRS Value Chain Cap Explained: Protected Undertakings, Supplier Requests and Reporting Relief

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Files: 1. Related guides: 5. Published together as one ESRS package.

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File Format
LRA_ESRS_Practical_Control_Templates.xlsx XLSX

Knowledge Hub

Guide register

Article ID Guide
ESRS-BND-001 ESRS Reporting Boundaries: Financial Consolidation, Own Operations and the Value Chain
ESRS-EST-003 ESRS Estimates and ‘Undue Cost or Effort’: When Relief Is Defensible
ESRS-FIN-005 Current and Anticipated Financial Effects Under ESRS: A Practical Guide for Finance Teams
ESRS-OMI-004 ESRS Omissions and Confidential Information: Commercial Prejudice, Trade Secrets and Privacy
ESRS-VCAP-002 ESRS Value Chain Cap Explained: Protected Undertakings, Supplier Requests and Reporting Relief

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  • ESRS Practical Control Templates — Excel, 56.2 KB

Guides in this package

  • ESRS Reporting Boundaries: Financial Consolidation, Own Operations and the Value Chain
  • ESRS Estimates and ‘Undue Cost or Effort’: When Relief Is Defensible
  • Current and Anticipated Financial Effects Under ESRS: A Practical Guide for Finance Teams
  • ESRS Omissions and Confidential Information: Commercial Prejudice, Trade Secrets and Privacy
  • ESRS Value Chain Cap Explained: Protected Undertakings, Supplier Requests and Reporting Relief

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