Source document library with assurance status

Provenance is the first thing an auditor asks for and the last thing most systems can produce. Holding the documents themselves, rather than a citation, is what makes a figure checkable, and holding the assurance statement with them is what tells you how much weight the figure will bear.

The per scope assurance columns are the part that changes a conversation. Open any cell and it states the level of assurance the document carries for that scope, reasonable or limited, unspecified where an engagement is named without a level, or none, together with the assurer the document names and the sentence in which the opinion is given. An organisation whose Scope 1 and 2 were assured to a limited level but whose Scope 3 was not is visible as exactly that, rather than flattened into one assured label.

The library holds what organisations actually publish, which includes the same report in several languages, restated versions of the same year, and product level reports with no year attached. All of it is kept rather than deduplicated into a tidier but less complete set.

Every figure carries its source and change history, so the path from a reported total to the document behind it, and to the assurance that document carries, is a link rather than a request.