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BRSR and ESG work for chartered accountants, company secretaries and consultants

Whether you prepare a client's BRSR, assess or assure its BRSR Core, or take the report to the board, ESGTrack gives you the figures with their evidence and approvals — in the client's own workspace, on the client's terms.

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If you advise or prepare

CA firms and ESG consultants work in each client's own ESGTrack with one login. A client's administrator gives your account access with a consultant role — ESG Manager, Compliance Manager, Viewer — and can end it at any time; ESGTrack checks the grant on every request. Your portfolio shows every client and what is due where.

  • Set up sites, periods, owners and approval workflows for each client
  • Prepare BRSR, BRSR Core and the other frameworks from approved data
  • Account administration stays with the client
  • Your consultancy's branding for clients that opt in
How consultant access works

If you assess or assure

For BRSR Core assessment or assurance, the provider works inside the client's ESGTrack, limited to the years of the engagement, with the standard applied recorded. Queries, document requests, samples and findings stay beside the figures they are about, and every KPI traces to its entries, evidence and approvals.

  • The statement drafted from the engagement's scope and what was done on it, every paragraph yours to edit
  • Signed in ESGTrack on the representations management signs
  • A public page where anyone can check a signed statement
  • Assured figures locked; reopening one needs a recorded reason
Assurance readiness

If you are the company secretary

The BRSR is part of the annual report, so its timetable is the board's. ESGTrack keeps a close calendar from year end to the AGM with the legal deadlines, records the approvals from section owners up to the board at final submission, and freezes the filing pack that was approved.

  • Board composition and anti-corruption, for Section C's governance answers
  • Policies, ethics and the vigil mechanism, with a public Speak-up page
  • CSR under section 135, with the Annexure II report and Form CSR-2 details
  • The BRSR as PDF, Word and the XBRL file for NSE and BSE

Learning BRSR and ESG

ESGTrack is software, not a training provider: there is no course, certificate or partner programme here. What is free to use, with no account, is the guides, a glossary of ESG terms and the free tools — an emissions calculator, an emission factor library, a BRSR checklist, a data collection template and the framework mapping explorer.

Inside ESGTrack, your client's team learns from 11 training modules and 36 lessons chosen for each person's role, each with a real task to try.

Questions from professionals

Is there an ESG or BRSR course for CAs and CSs here?

No. ESGTrack is software, not a training provider: there is no course, certificate or partner programme. What is free to use is the guides, a glossary of ESG terms, an emissions calculator, an emission factor library, a BRSR checklist, a data collection template and the framework mapping explorer.

Can a CA or consulting firm manage several clients in ESGTrack?

Yes. Each client keeps its own ESGTrack and grants your existing account access with a consultant role — ESG Manager, Compliance Manager, Viewer — which it can end at any time. You switch between clients from one portfolio, and each of your sessions appears in the client's activity log.

Can our firm's branding appear for clients?

For clients that opt in, yes: your consultancy's branding, and your domain on the sign-in page.

How does an assessor or assurer work in ESGTrack?

The engagement is limited to the years it covers, with the standard applied recorded. Queries, document requests, samples and findings stay beside the figures; the statement is written and signed in ESGTrack on the representations management signs, and only the assurer attached to the engagement can sign it.

What does ESGTrack do for the company secretary?

A close calendar from year end to the AGM with the legal deadlines, final submission with the approvals up to the board, registers for board composition, policies and the vigil mechanism, and CSR under section 135 with the Annexure II report.

Guides on this topic

All guides and resources

GuideAssurance and controls

Getting ready for BRSR Core assessment or assurance: evidence, controls and audit trails

An assessor or assurer tests whether each BRSR Core figure can be supported — by source records, a documented method, named approvals and a trail of every change. It helps to collect evidence with each figure as it is entered, separate who enters from who approves, explain unusual movements, and fix the boundary and factors before year end rather than during fieldwork.

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GuideRegulation

CSR under section 135: who must spend, how much, unspent amounts and reporting

A company with net worth of ₹500 crore, turnover of ₹1,000 crore or net profit of ₹5 crore in the preceding year must spend at least 2% of its average net profits of the last three years on CSR. Unspent amounts move to set accounts by set dates, and spending is reported in the board's report, Form CSR-2 and the BRSR.

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Bring a client's BRSR to a demo

See the portfolio, the client's workspace and the assurance workspace on sample data, or on a client who agrees.