Blue Crane Consulting Ltd
Empowering finance professionals to act on sustainability
Our Services
Blue Crane Consulting is a unique consultancy that provides business and the public sector with the skills and knowledge to integrate sustainability into accounting, business decisions and strategy.
Services include:
- developing and delivering sustainability/ESG training for finance professionals;
- providing consulting services to enable finance teams to integrate sustainability/ESG into accounting practices;
- undertaking natural, social and human capitals assessments.
A particular focus on strengthening the connections with nature, accounting and sustainability best-practice underpins this work.
Our Projects
We are delighted to have worked with a range of respected clients.
Corporate course
We authored the ICAEW’s flagship training for Chartered Accountants on sustainability, which is now the fastest selling course in ICAEW history.
This 15 hour, online on-demand content focusses on integrating sustainability into reporting, risk management and decision-making processes following an engaging, practical and pragmatic approach. This included leading workshops to identify training needs; writing all content including a 2-hour case study exam; filming over 30 video shorts to share insights from subject matter experts and accountants applying ESG.
Public sector course
Building on this foundation, Blue Crane Consulting adapted the course to develop a public sector version for the UK government’s finance function (GFF), working closely with members of the GFF to develop bespoke content that follows the government’s Green Book guidance.
Sillion: Application of IFRS S1 and S2
Blue Crane Consulting produced a series of reports and webinar support for Sillion to assist their technical interpretation and application of the inaugural IFRS sustainability standards, S1 (General Requirements) and S2 (Climate-related Disclosures). This consisted of interpretation of the S1 and S2 standards, technical terminology and requirements, and associated documents. This was supplemented by additional IFRS/IASB guidance, presented for a non-finance technical audience.
This included producing a summary of S1 and S2 disclosure requirements; summarising the Transition Plan Taskforce disclosure framework requirements included in S2; pairing these with a template core data request needed to fulfil these obligations.
Rosie undertook a review of sustainability content in the 2023 ACA learning materials (the ICAEW Chartered Accountant qualification).
This included a review of all 17 exam workbooks and the development of an ACA sustainability framework and report to ensure consistent and progressive application of sustainability from the Certificate, through the Professional and into the Advanced Level exam materials. Rosie led examiner workshops to help communicate the framework and support its implementation.
Sillion: TCFD Scenario modelling
Working as an associate with ESG consultancy Sillion, Rosie supported the RS Group finance team to embed TCFD scenario modelling in their financial processes.
This included identifying and providing data control over model inputs; interpreting and embedding the model outputs in financial processes such as funding requests and risk management; ensuring the financial statements align with the TCFD statement.
Earthly advisory board
From 2021 to 2024 Rosie supported Earthly in its mission to help companies invest in nature through high quality nature-based solutions that remove carbon, restore biodiversity and improve livelihoods.
Rosie supported the development of Earthly’s framework to assess nature-based solutions projects, using a natural, social and human capital lens, and authored ‘Preparing for the net-zero economy – is business weathering the storm?’
In 2021 Rosie supported Little Blue Research to follow the new BSI standard on natural capital accounting (BS 8632) to produce a natural capital profit & loss account and balance sheet for one of Olam’s food ingredients.
This role had a specific focus on connecting the natural capital accounts to the financial statements. Providing technical advice to identify and value key impacts and dependencies, Rosie’s unique expertise allowed her to engage the finance team and support integration of these outputs into financial processes.
Our Team
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Testimonials
Dr. Stephanie Hime, CEO, Little Blue Research
"It has been great to have Rosie as part of our team, she has been a pleasure to work with. Her knowledge of linking financial accounting with sustainability challenges and natural capital has been invaluable.”