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b) Report period and scope
This report covers the financial year 2015
(FY15):
1st July 2014 – 30th June 2015.
The scope of the report is the entire EMEIA
Financial Services region – including the
FS parts of 14 markets (Austria, Belgium,
Channel Islands, France, Germany, Gibraltar,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, UK), four
service lines (Advisory, Assurance, TAS, Tax)
and three sectors (Banking and capital
markets, Insurance and Wealth and asset
management).
c) Restatements
Every year, we aim to improve our reporting
quality and the robustness of data. As a result
of this, we sometimes have to restate data
published in the previous year’s report.
This year, three items are being restated:
volunteering, cash donations and carbon data.
Volunteering:
Since we started publishing sustainability
reports in 2012, our volunteering figures
have been a combination of numbers from
our internal systems, and a “manual uplift”
calculation using an informed estimate. We
conducted the manual uplift in the knowledge
that the internal systems do not provide
complete volunteering numbers, due to
the nature of the requirement to input
volunteering hours.
We have decided this year to report on
the conservative side, stating only what the
internal systems tell us. Having reviewed
these uplift calculations, we are publishing the
system-only numbers, allowing us to reassess
our manual uplift methodology and make it
more robust for future years, while improving
upon the reporting via our systems. We are
also working on improvements in separating
our skill-based and traditional volunteering
data from our pro bono initiatives.
Cash donations:
In previous years, we have published the total
donation figure from the EMEIA FS region.
This year, to create a more accurate view of
the donations coming from the EMEIA FS
region, we have decided to publish a lower
figure, representing solely what was given
from the EMEIA FS segments of each market
in the region. This figure is made up of
collaborations/sponsorships with nonprofits,
philanthropic donations to nonprofits and
Partner spend on nonprofits.
Carbon data:
The restatements from Scopes 1 and 2
are primarily attributed to a reallocation of
emissions for heating in the Netherlands
from Scope 1 to Scope 2.
d) Nonfinancial assurance
This report is internally assured by an
independent internal business unit within EY
specializing in providing assurance on
sustainability reporting, to review our
nonfinancial information and processes. The
scope of this review was volunteering, cash
donations and carbon footprint, as well as the
GRI table being presented in accordance with
option Core of the GRI G4 guidelines. We
believe that the independent internal
nonfinancial assurance provides us with the
thoroughness and robustness to report
transparently and correctly in line with the
guidelines. NB: While Austria joined the EMEIA
FS region in 2015, their numbers are not
included in the nonfinancial review.
EMEIA Financial Services has a dedicated Corporate
Sustainability (CS) team with financial services industry
knowledge.
CS central team
Beth Knight
Head of Corporate Sustainability
bknight@uk.ey.com
Shipra Gupta
Interim Head of Corporate Sustainability
sgupta@uk.ey.com
Nicola Ruane
Corporate Sustainability Operations Lead
nruane@uk.ey.com
Manish Chanan
Pro Bono Services Lead
mchanan@uk.ey.com
Robert Rosenberg
Corporate Sustainability Manager
rrosenberg@uk.ey.com
Whitney Hollis
Corporate Sustainability Coordinator
whollis@uk.ey.com
Elizabeth Garner
EY Vantage Program Coordinator
egarner@uk.ey.com
May Breisacher
Corporate Sustainability Associate
mbreisacher@uk.ey.com
Beyond this team, we have a number of
subject matter experts across a range of topics
within sustainability in FS, all of whom can be
found here – www.ey.com/fssustainability.
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