GuideBRSR and BRSR Core
BRSR Core is a set of key BRSR indicators under nine attributes — GHG, water and energy footprints, circularity, employee wellbeing and safety, gender diversity, inclusive development, fairness to customers and suppliers, and openness of business — that listed companies must have independently assessed or assured. It applies to the top 500 for FY 2025-26 and the top 1,000 from FY 2026-27.
GuideAssurance and controls
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.
StoryAssurance and controls
Illustrative scenario
An invented example of how a listed cement manufacturer entering the top 500 might get ready for its first BRSR Core reasonable assurance — from scoping in October to a signed statement in July — and the problems a dry run would typically find. The company, people and figures are invented to show the steps.